Keeping websites from knowing where I live

Posted by D Connors on Super User See other posts from Super User or by D Connors
Published on 2010-03-03T00:50:40Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 12:41 UTC
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This questions is related to issues and practicality, not security.

I live in Brazil and, apparently, every single website I visit knows about it. Usually that's okay. But there are quite a few sites that don't make use of that information adequately.

For instance:

  • Bing keeps thinking that Brazilian pages are way more relevant to me than American ones (which they're not).
  • google.com always redirects me to google.com.br
  • Microsoft automatically sends me to horribly translated support pages in Portuguese (which would just be easier to read in English).

These are just a few examples. Usually it's stuff I can live with (or work around), but some of them are just plain irritating.

I have geolocation disabled in Firefox, so I guess they're either getting this information from my IP or from Windows itself (which I bought here).

Is there a way to avoid this? Either tell them nothing or make them think I live somewhere else?

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