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joshdick / miniProxy

🚨⚠️ UNMAINTAINED! ⚠️🚨 A simple PHP web proxy.
http://joshdick.github.io/miniProxy
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Visiting google.com takes user to different locale #97

Closed sulliops closed 6 years ago

sulliops commented 6 years ago

When I put "google.com" in the text box and click go, it leads me to the Brazilian version of google (google.com.br). When I try on another proxy, it takes me to another random locale (but not English).

Can this be fixed or is it Google's issue?

joshdick commented 6 years ago

I cannot reproduce this behavior.

This is most likely because Google is trying to geolocate based on the IP address of the machine running the proxy, so if you're getting redirected to the Brazilian version of Google, it's probably because miniProxy itself is running on a machine that's physically located there. The same is likely true for the other proxy you tried.

Based on this, I'm going to close this issue, but if I was wrong, feel free to continue the dialog here!

BelleNottelling commented 6 years ago

If you set anonymize to false your true ip will be sent which may correct the location, but it will also lower your privacy and will no longer hide your IP address

sulliops commented 6 years ago

@BenNottelling that didn't seem to do anything. I believe @joshdick's response is correct.