How does Amazon/Audible know my country with VPN and private browsing on?
How does Amazon/Audible know my country with VPN and private browsing on?
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Trying to buy an audiobook with my US account from Australia. Am using a VPN and a fresh log in using a private browsing window. Still getting the “not for sale in this country…”
How does Amazon/Audible still know my country?!
EDIT: Thank you everyone for your suggestions, but I feel like we’re no closer to figuring out how Amazon is detecting my physical country. If they have some new “trick” surely this is a privacy issue as well?!
EDIT 2: Important details, this is on my iPhone using both the Amazon and Audible apps, and via the web with Safari (mentioned below). Doesn’t work.
I gave up and went to my desktop and was able to complete the purchase following the same steps without issue. So 🤷♂️ ?!
Clearly Amazon is scraping some information from the phone to region lock the purchase. Still would love to know given VPN isn’t masking my location apparently.
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Your vpn provider is only working with ipv4. Your phone has both ipv4 as well as ipv6 addresses. That's how....
Do any VPN providers cover this?
On phones? Maybe proton with their app? Its easier, though, to just disable ipv6 on your phone.
I see. Thanks.