Can anyone using ProtonVPN check Amazon's auto-detected location please?
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April 9, 2026
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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