Why does my phone think I'm at home? - eviltoast

I have a phone with a Spanish Sim, but when I’m abroad, I still get websites redirect me to the Spanish version, when I’d prefer to see the local one. This happens even when I’m on WiFi, but I’m guessing it’s something to do with my Sim?

Does anyone know how they do this, and if there is a way of overriding it?

  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    If you are data roaming with your home phone plan, then it is normal. The local carrier tunnels the traffic back to your service provider in your home country and then it routes to the internet from there.

    I get it all the time when I’m OS travelling.

    You’d need a VPN in the country you’re in to make the traffic appear local…

    If it’s happening on WiFi, it will be your language setting. If you’re on android, try setting up a different user profile with different language and locations settings as a quick test.

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      1 year ago

      This is possibly what’s happening. So a VPN is the only way to bypass this? That’s rather annoying.

      Might look into getting a local sim