google search redirected to language/country of Tor exit node

phobos at rootme.org phobos at rootme.org
Tue Aug 30 16:47:53 UTC 2005


There's a FAQ entry about this:
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#GoogleLanguage

Yes, it is expected behavior.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:38:17AM -0700, OpenMacNews at speakeasy.net wrote 1.1K bytes in 37 lines about:
: hi all,
: 
: i'm experiencing a bit of oddness with Google Search when using Tor ...
: 
: i'm using FireFox106 thru a Squid+Privoxy+Tor setup on OSX.
: 
: if i navigate to a site while Tor'd, and find that my exit point is, e.g. 
: in Poland, and then enter a search via the Google toolbar, my search 
: results page comes up as http://www.google.pl -- in Polish.
: 
: this behavior SEEMS to indepdendent of my google prefs ... set to English 
: at the moment.
: 
: is this an expected behavior, for any given exit point?  or some sort of 
: preference (Google? Squid? Tor?) setting that i haven't yet ferreted out?
: 
: thx,
: 
: richard



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Phobos



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