Can anyone using ProtonVPN check Amazon's auto-detected location please?

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So I’ve noticed that Amazon’s home page is detecting me in Ashburn, VA for the last week or so. This happens on three different devices and three separate browsers, from all US Proton servers. I don’t live anywhere near VA, but I’m in the same time zone and Proton likes to auto-connect there a lot for some reason, so I recognize the name.

So my question is just to see if anyone else is seeing that location on Amazon this week. I want to confirm whether it’s something that is going on with Amazon/Proton, or if somehow they’ve managed to fingerprint/supercookie me. Again, this is on two iOS devices, a PC, Safari/FF/Brave, on both cellular and “public” WiFi. Private browsing, cookies/data cleared, etc. DNSLeakTest cleared dozens of times.

I wouldn’t normally be that concerned, but it’s been nagging me for a week now, and I wanna make sure nothing weird is happening. Thanks in advance!

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Ashburn VA is one of the major data center hubs in the US, to the extent that if you live in the Eastern US there’s a pretty sizeable chance that any given internet connection you establish will go through Ashburn in one way or another. If you truly live nowhere near VA outside of being in the same time zone, it is almost certainly the VPN servers you are connecting to are located there.

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Except this happens even while connected to CA, TX, FL, etc. Right? So my exit is hopping all over, and confirmed by tons of DNSLeakTests (unless that site isn’t great maybe?). My thought is that Amazon is just auto-listing every ProtonVPN user with a US-East system time as from Ashburn, but I wanted to confirm with other ppl.

Although, I did try changing system time/region and same result. But I dunno where exactly that system time is sucked out from by websites, so I dunno.

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I get it for any US VPN location. Different browsers, different security profiles, different IPs, in each case, even West Coast locations default to Ashburn, VA. It’s likely defaulting to Amazon’s preferred data center to handle the request until you give it more info.

Congrats - you seem to have fooled them. Take this as a win.

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Alright cool, thanks for checking. I was really worried that I had some kind of weird leak or my ISP was doing something sketchy, lol.

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