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If you use a VPN service on your phone or laptop, the language on many websites will default to the location of the server having your new IP address. I use NordVPN for security (both on and off) and it regularly does this. I'll test it on the Amtrak app and see if it happens.
 
NoprdVPN has a server in Hong Kong as well as Taiwan.
Of course. But they also have scads of servers in the US. Someone who is sitting in the US trying to use mostly US sites but using a VPN server on the other side of the Pacific sounds pretty weird to me. Maybe it is just me, but I would try to avoid doing that. Unnecessarily adds latency and throttles performance.
 
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Of course. But they also have scads of servers in the US. Someone who is sitting in the US trying to use mostly US sites but using a VPN server on the other side of the Pacific sounds pretty weird to me. Maybe it is just me, but I would try to avoid doing that. Unnecessarily adds latency and throttles performance.
A big reason I won't be renewing my NordVPN subscription when it expires in a few months: I have my server set to one of several US servers (usually Charlotte or Manassas as they're the closest, sometimes Atlanta) and it keeps routing me through Toronto, causing security alerts at work when my phone checks my email. I also sometimes have websites think I'm in Prague. So it wouldn't surprise me if someone in the US with their VPN set to the US suddenly "shows up" in Taiwan, Australia, or India.
 
A big reason I won't be renewing my NordVPN subscription when it expires in a few months: I have my server set to one of several US servers (usually Charlotte or Manassas as they're the closest, sometimes Atlanta) and it keeps routing me through Toronto, causing security alerts at work when my phone checks my email. I also sometimes have websites think I'm in Prague. So it wouldn't surprise me if someone in the US with their VPN set to the US suddenly "shows up" in Taiwan, Australia, or India.
Agreed. I would not touch such an irresponsible VPN provider with a ten foot barge pole. If I specify USA my VPN end point must remain in the USA always.
 
Agreed. I would not touch such an irresponsible VPN provider with a ten foot barge pole. If I specify USA my VPN end point must remain in the USA always.
I use Private Internet Access and never had them move my selected host city, let alone change country.

I always check the host server location and I have changed it on occasion. I changed it to Melbourne, Australia when I wanted to stream Season 2 of the Das Boot TV series that wasn't available from any US source. When I finished it, I switched it back to a US host.

If my VPN played musical chairs with my host location, I'd dump that vendor, proto.
 
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