VPN by Google One will no longer place you in Texas if you’re in New York

VPN by Google One is getting an choice to enhance your expertise with location-based companies. For those who subscribe to Google’s VPN, it can quickly help you change your default IP tackle area from broad to native.

At the moment, VPN by Google One merely connects to the closest server in the identical nation. Customers don’t have any management over this, and the connection often locations them in a completely completely different state, hampering experiences like climate and different location-based companies. Now, 9to5Google stories that Google is fixing this drawback.

On the finish of this month, VPN by Google One will set your IP location to a neighborhood area by default to enhance location-based experiences on the apps and web sites you go to. The replace will begin rolling out on July 29, 2023. Google has began emailing customers in regards to the change and has mentioned that it’ll proceed to “stop your community supplier or the web sites from understanding your precise IP tackle or exact location.”

That mentioned, you’ll nonetheless have the choice to maintain the earlier default and use a “broader IP tackle area” like your nation as a substitute of your native area. This, Google says, offers you much more privateness. The setting will seem within the Google One app on Android, iOS, Mac, and Home windows.