Author Topic: Why does the vpn say im based in Malaysia when im connected?  (Read 5064 times)

D43B35

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Why does the vpn say im based in Malaysia when im connected?
« on: January 25, 2012, 01:03:05 AM »
Hi

I connect to fully routed Luxembourg so that my ip says im in Luxembourg. This site http://whatismyipaddress.com/ proves that.

But when i click in gmail or google i get redirected to the Malaysian page of the site. Why is this? 

Offline AJaydono

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Re: Why does the vpn say im based in Malaysia when im connected?
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2012, 10:42:46 AM »
Please provide the logs. It will show if you are successfully connected to the server or not.

D43B35

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Re: Why does the vpn say im based in Malaysia when im connected?
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2012, 12:23:50 AM »
ok this is what i have for a connection to fully routed Luxembourg-

 Thu Jan 26 15:59:58 2012 OpenVPN 2.2.0 Win32-MSVC++ [SSL] [LZO2] built on Apr 26 2011
Thu Jan 26 15:59:58 2012 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Thu Jan 26 15:59:58 2012 Control Channel Authentication: using 'ta.key' as a OpenVPN static key file
Thu Jan 26 15:59:58 2012 LZO compression initialized
Thu Jan 26 15:59:58 2012 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Thu Jan 26 15:59:58 2012 UDPv4 link remote: 94.242.213.6:443
Thu Jan 26 15:59:59 2012 [server] Peer Connection Initiated with 94.242.213.6:443
Thu Jan 26 16:00:01 2012 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 2] opened: \\.\Global\{ECCE76D4-0FC6-4A39-8D15-EBDF6FD5AA04}.tap
Thu Jan 26 16:00:01 2012 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.10.11.254/255.255.255.252 on interface {ECCE76D4-0FC6-4A39-8D15-EBDF6FD5AA04} [DHCP-serv: 10.10.11.253, lease-time: 31536000]
Thu Jan 26 16:00:01 2012 Successful ARP Flush on interface [22] {ECCE76D4-0FC6-4A39-8D15-EBDF6FD5AA04}
 OK!
 OK!
 OK!
Thu Jan 26 16:00:04 2012 Initialization Sequence Completed


What does all this mean?

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Re: Why does the vpn say im based in Malaysia when im connected?
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2012, 08:33:35 AM »
Just clear your cookies.
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D43B35

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Re: Why does the vpn say im based in Malaysia when im connected?
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 11:56:59 PM »
I deleted the cookie from both firefox and chrome but according to google im still based in Malaysia.   

Then i found this http://www.google.com.my/intl/en/policies/privacy/ or more specifically this-

Cookies – When you visit Google, we send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends, such as how people search. Google also uses cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web and on Google services.

Log information – When you access Google services via a browser, application or other client our servers automatically record certain information. These server logs may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your account.

With this in mind i should probably change search provider-but to who? which search provider is more secure? Would ixquick be one to use? 

D43B35

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Re: Why does the vpn say im based in Malaysia when im connected?
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2012, 10:00:05 PM »
So basically its impossible to delete cookies that google sends you. I tried deleting cookies from both firefox and chrome but google still says im in Malaysia even though im connected to luxembourg fully routed.