Has anyone ever heard of this happening? A family member is using Wireguard to VPN to my home server while traveling in the UK, strictly for privacy/security reasons (can only use insecure wifi).
Slowly but surely, Google services have begun to think my very residential (ASN 54329) IP address is in the UK. Youtube ads, then Youtube itself, Google search results, and lately Youtube TV even refuses to work. My roommates claim Netflix has even started showing UK content!
Is this some VPN detection/abuse system gone haywire?
It is quite creepy that Google is obviously pairing precise location data from my family members iPhone to my fairly static IP address. It's also odd that I have other roommates with their own phones (Android, iPhone) presumably also feeding Google precise locations from this IP, but the UK one is overriding it.
It seems like if this was some abuse prevention thing it shouldn't be this easy to fool in reverse.
We have a YouTube TV family plan but we don't all live in the same city. You can travel temporarily, but if anyone accesses it from a different city for more than a couple weeks, their access is disabled until they return to the home city.
I tried having a family member in another city watch YouTube TV via Wireguard to get an IP address in our home city. That simple trick failed because Google uses their phone location to determine their real location.
Is the UK traveler routing their phone through Wireguard, such that the phone's geolocation is being linked to your home IP?