iCloud Private Relay Says I'm in Canada...I Am Not

[iammike1]

For the last few months I started noticing strange things first with YouTube being insistent on directing me to the Canadian site until I manually overrode it. Then I started noticing it other places as well. Upon using some tools such as whereami.com it was obvious that Private Relay was pinning me in Windsor Ontario Canada which is, as the crow flies, almost 500 miles away from me. I live well well away from the Canadian border.

I usually keep ICPR set to keep my general location which has traditionally almost always pinned me in the nearest large US city. I tried changing to country and timezone but no change.

I've tested this on my mac, iPad and iPhone all with the same results.

I haven't seen anyone else talking about getting consistently (as in every time I have checked for months) dropped in the wrong country especially when they don't live right on the border. Anyone else here seeing similar?

 

[iammike1]

Guess no one cares about this including Apple. What a waste of a great feature.

 

[Lord Egregious]

I actually had this yesterday and it took me a minute to realize it was private relay doing it. The Steam app was freaking out because I was trying to approve a log-in that showed my area from the pc but the steam app on my phone was showing it was in Germany and I am in the US. I never touch private relay and it's always set to my general location as well.