[Opera-Linux] How to make Opera believe my location is the UK?

[Daniel Eckl]

Hi!

Well while noone can say for sure how your location is being
determined, it's most probably your IP address.

And while some sites have better geolocation databases, others may have worse.
So if one site can't tell your country, the BBC site seemingly can.

There is most probably nothing your browser can do about.

You can try to find a proxy server located in UK, but discussing that
would be the wrong place in here, as it is totally browser
independant.

Best,
Daniel

2007/10/18, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This year I enjoyed much to follow the Formula 1 season, and I have
> one problem with it: I have a TV set (actually I borrow it for the
> day), but I have no access to Eurosport and thus I cannot follow the
> Saturday Qualifications for each Grand Prix. I can follow them live
> using the official Formula 1 website [1]. There are, however, no live
> commentaries (live as in voice).
>
> I searched a bit on the Internet and found the BBC Radio Station [2].
> I have one single technical problem with it: it's "Available Online
> (UK Only)". So, my question:
>
> Is there a way to make Opera believe that I am located in
> the UK? I am using (on a regular basis) the following environment
> variables (on Gentoo Linux):
> LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> Nonetheless, it seems to make no difference to Opera. Maybe
> someone knows exactly how does BBC, or Google and other sites
> proposing their web pages in your local language, determine your
> location? For example, when accessing
> http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox,net , it indicates me immediately
> and correctly from what country I am accessing the site. When I enter
> my IP address in the "CountryWhois" box, it is unable to identify my
> coordonates.
>
> [1] http://www.formula1.com/services/live_timing/
> [2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/sportsextra/schedule.shtml
>
> Any suggestions - especially by Saturday :) - are welcome,
> Liviu
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