Many Surfshark servers giving me an incorrect location

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I’ve been having issues with my detected location on search engines/YouTube not matching up to the VPN location.

A few examples:

Finland = St Petersburg
Argentina = British Virgin Islands
Albania = Bulgaria
Austria = United Kingdom

[VPN Server on the left, search engine/YouTube’s detected location on the right]

Is there any way to fix this? At first I thought it was just an issue with the virtual servers (India, Argentina, etc.) but this problem appears to be persistent across so many of them. They all used to work perfectly fine.

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This always made me question the security of Surf Shark.

It goes well beyond the search engine or YouTube. I have visited IP sites, for example, whatismyip.com or whatismyipaddress.com, and been told something different than what Surf Shark claims.

It has often made me suspect that they’re hijacked. With the feeling that I should not trust the service.

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Yep, USA based kept saying Canada for me… I forget which one since I stopped using that one

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Probably youtube resolve the wrong IP address. To confirm that, you can try open www.whatismyipaddress.com for checking your VPN location.

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There is a support article on Surfshark explaining why this happens:

I find the wrong location happens if I’m connected to Las Vegas. But what I’ve found is that if I use whatismyip.com or whatismyipaddress.com they show the wrong location (they say I’m in Los Angeles) but ipapi.co always shows the correct location.

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Surfshark broken for me, keep giving GB not turkey for me

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same issue

Surf-shark redirects IP to different one all the time…

For example:

I will set Australian IP, when check IP online straight away (no matter the service) it will show me the correct location, however if I will check again let say after 1-2min the address changes to Singapore or something like that…

not happy, Ill be moving somewhere else once my contract ends…

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Is there any way to fix this?

Not that I know of. Funny enough it is only Google and YT that identifies the location wrong. No matter what other service I use, they all show the correct location. But it doesn’t really matter what Google/YT thinks, it has no impact on search results or suggestions.

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Hey, did u ever manage to figure this out?

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Hi, usually this happens if you have any P2P services active on your device. We’d be glad to double-check your specific case, could you reach out to our support team at [email protected] or by joining live chats on our site?

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I can’t get my massive YouTube premium discount without the right locations though! :wink:

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No , not yet do you ?

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Yup, having same problem here. Google thinks I’m in NY so shows me $23 a month for YT Premium, when everything else says I’m in India.

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Sadly not. I used ukranian vpn to get it. Still cheap but not as cheap as turkey was