Wrong country is shown when tethering

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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I have a strange issue and i am not sure how to tackle it. I have a local operator's SIM card in my mobile phone and i have it tethered to my OpenWRT (via USB cable) to the router to provide me access to the Internet. Everything works fine, but in the google, youtube, showing the default country as different one rather than the one i am currently am.
i am in Greece and it shows ads and default language of Chrome to Romania.
If i do a speedtest via OOKLA, it shows the correct country.

by removing the OpenWRT router and sharing the internet access to my laptop all the aforementioned look fine and show the correct country and ads.

any ideas what is causing this issue and how to solve it, please?

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Should be obvious OpenWrt does not modify your geolocation.

3

Have you made any changes to the default DNS configuration in OpenWrt?

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i did not change anything in the default DNS

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here is my /etc/config/network


config interface 'loopback'
	option device 'lo'
	option proto 'static'
	option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
	option netmask '255.0.0.0'

config globals 'globals'
	option ula_prefix 'fdae:40e0:d0a9::/48'

config device
	option name 'br-lan'
	option type 'bridge'
	list ports 'eth0'

config interface 'lan'
	option device 'br-lan'
	option proto 'static'
	option ipaddr '192.168.9.1'
	option netmask '255.255.255.0'
	option ip6assign '60'

config interface 'wan'
	option device 'eth1'
	option proto 'dhcp'

config interface 'lan2'
	option proto 'static'
	option device 'eth2'
	option ipaddr '192.168.3.1'
	option netmask '255.255.255.0'
	option broadcast '192.168.3.255'

config interface 'TetherWAN'
	option proto 'dhcp'
	option device 'eth3'
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If you redo your test in an incognito browser window ?

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Also remove surplus regions/keyboards if on edge.

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even in incognito i see the same behavior

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Ah, the joys of geoIP, this is just an imprecise heuristic. The sad thing is, quite a few service assume that this is reliable an veridical information, which it rarely is. Now, to be honest maybe talk to google? Or try this:

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fix is not to use chrome ? :slight_smile: