How does google detect my actual location while using my VPN?
It’s not just Google. But typically some services will request your devices GPS location not the location based on your IP address. I’ve gotten around that with some services. By disabling location services.
A VPN only changes your IP address; apps and websites have a multitude of other ways to track your location and activity.
- Device GPS/GNSS sensors if activated
- Device accelerometer data - can trace your movements
- Nearby wi-fi networks or Bluetooth devices
- Cookies or login sessions from before starting VPN
- System language, keyboard, and time zone
Also your browser can have location on. Not sure the technologies involved, but your browser can broadcast your actual location despite your VPN serving you from elsewhere. I turn that off along with microphone, camera, and screen sharing
If you are on an android device or any other application that leaks the name of the wifi or other devices around you, they can infer your location based on previous information of those. That’s the way they usually track you so precisely even if gps is disabled.
yeah if you to into manage your account…you can disable you tracking habits and ads etc etc I stopped having spam to my account.
How does the location service on a laptop work? Does the laptop have a GPS chip?
A VPN can easily be detected using something like IPQS.
I’m not any kind of network admin or anything like that so I’m just talking based on what I’ve seen. But I believe your data is still going through the VPN first. So like your ISP can’t see what your doing. They just see that your connected to a VPN server. But I believe that’s what other websites see as well. They just track it back to your VPNs IP address for tracking purposes. I’m sure they have other things they do to try and get around that.
But when it comes to your location. Depending on what device and source your using it can request your devices GPS location when it needs to determine what it can show you.
I’m going to use a sports reference because that’s what I have experience with. But if I have a live tv streaming service that I want to use on my tablet or phone. Since they have apps they know that you are using a device that has a gps location. So they can force the app not to function unless location services is on.
If you are using something like chrome on a PC then there is so much hardware that can be on that pc that it just uses your IP address to determine location. So the VPN would actually work for that.
Again, I’m not any type of professional when it comes to this stuff. Just someone who enjoys the subreddit and tries to help out.
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