[lxgr]

Wait, does that mean if I subscribe to Gemini Pro in country A where it's available (e.g. the US) but travel to Europe, I can't use it?

I'm really frustrated by Google's attitude of "we know better where you are than you do". People travel sometimes and that's not the same thing as moving!

[FergusArgyll]

I signed up for all of their AI products when I was in the US, some of them work while I'm out of country some don't. I can't tell what the rule is...

[lxgr]

I really, really hate all of these geo heuristics. Sure, don't advertise services to people outside of your market, I get that. Do ask for a payment method from that country too to provide your market-specific pricing if you must.

But once I'm a paying customer, I want to use the thing I'm paying for from where I am without jumping through ridiculous hoops!

The worst variant of this I've seen is when you can neither use nor cancel the subscription from outside a supported market.

[FergusArgyll]

To be clear, I didn't pay for any of them. I just signed up for early access to every product that uses some form of ML that can remotely be called "AI"...

Once I got accepted, some of them work outside of the US and some don't