Should I be worried?
I'm in the UK and for the last 2 days , Google and YouTube seem to think I'm in Russia.
The language and movies are all Russian. If i go to my own website and use Google Analytics, it thinks I'm in Russia too.
However a check on my ISP shows as in the UK.
If I switch off 'Freedome' the problem seems to go away, despite Freedome being set at London.
Any ideas? Should I be worried I've been hacked?
Thanks in advance.
Accepted Answer
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Hi,
Thank you for letting us know about this. It seems that Google has decided our brand new servers in the UK would be in Russia instead of London, UK where they're physically located. All the public geolocation service providers agree that the servers are in the UK, and they're correctly set so in the whois data as well.
We've already asked Google about this - hopefully they will sort out this issue quickly so that our UK users won't have to learn the cyrillic alphabet to be able to use the Google services! ;)
--Tapio Keihänen, Service Manager for F-Secure FREEDOME VPN