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Originally Posted by TheDoc
What everyone is suggesting in this thread would be the largest privacy violation in the world and violate 90% of the Countries privacy laws, if they even did .1% of what was suggested in this thread.
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Yes it is a privacy violation and it's already happen. And I have a proof. I'm using VPN for save surfing (don't want my ISP to read my email, my posts on the message boards etc). My VPN server is located in EU, so every time when I typed google.com I was redirected to the European version of google with the same default language as my VPN's IP was.
After that I was using Chrome for a while. I never gave any permission to disclosure my location, however... some time ago I found out that now google.com always sends me to google.ru (the local version for the country where I really live). This means that now google associates my VPN's IP with Russia, but not with the EU where it actually is located.
I did some tests and tried google.com via various proxies. With German proxy I was sent to google.de, with the UK one I was sent to google.co.uk and with the US IP I was sent to google.com.
Thus I 100% sure that google Chrome has translated my geo location to google w/o my permission and now google associates it (the geo location) with my Eeuropean VPN IP.
Can you find some different explanation?