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by smashah 1280 days ago
I have a wiregaurd VPN in my home server in London. During the pandemic I was stuck in the Middle East for a few months. Obviously while there I was VPN-ing all my traffic from my various devices through my home server. When I got back to London, all my YouTube and TV ads were as if I was still in the middle east. Very annoying.
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I never tried this - but I would've expected that after using Google Maps for a couple of weeks while in London - the GeoIP data would've been updated again back to the UK?
This is likely cookies or account history, not IP geolocation.
Probably, I never use GPS when I'm in the city I was stuck in.