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Originally Posted by cyberxxx
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 EU where it's actually is located.
I did some tastes and tried google 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?
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You have your settings set to your region/country in Google, they don't ask for permission on it, you add it, it's done until you change it.