I’ve had this issue for two years now. I wrote in a while ago and was told it was some issue with just me. Recently it started annoying me again and I searched the forums and found many with the same issue, but did not see a fix.
When I try to connect to the Miami location on VPN (which is the most convenient since it’s close to me), my location is changed to be Czech or Brazil. This makes Google useless, among many other websites that translate into a language I don’t know.
There has to be a more permanent solution after this happening for years. This is not an inexpensive service. I should be able to connect to a local station and not have it throw me to czech or brazil.
I’ve also run into this when I used Miami as the default while I was in Florida in Jan.
I’ve reported this on the Developers forum. Let’s see if that helps.
New York as well. I am in Prague Czech Republic. Have had issues with Chrome/Firefox changing as well. I read that it is a virus and that keeeping your browsers up-to-date solves this. Um. Not always. And if it is a virus, why the heck doesn’t Avast catch and eradicate it?! >:( >:( >:(
Avast is looking for the following information in order to track down the problem:
“a rough time when the problem was observed and the Czech/Brazil IP address that you can see on some IP-checking website”
Avast will also need some user info such as email or licensing info. (don’t post that personal info here.)
Once available, I’ll supply the Avast place where to send that information.