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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i didn’t see if anyone else asked already; was your phone connected to the internet via wifi? or cell data?
Yes it was. It needed to be connected somehow to make the purchase.
which one though? i was wondering, if you are connected to a cell tower, if that tower still reported the region or carrier network.
Aah I see. Both. Didn’t think to disconnect from either and try separately.
I’ve already got the book now. But will remember this if I have the problem again in the future. Thanks.