Why are all prices in my browsing now in Japanese Yen? I am American, living in the US...
Why are all prices in my browsing now in Japanese Yen? I am American, living in the US... And Japan is listed on my search engine as some kind of toggle option as shown in the screenshot below:
This happened spontaneously after using the currency converter at www.xe.com, a site I've used often over the years with zero problem. Especially disturbing because I use a vpn so nothing like this should have crossed over onto any browser, especially not Firefox. Grateful for any suggestions on where the glitch is. Of
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E808 said
I use a vpn so nothing like this should have crossed over onto any browser, especially not Firefox.
What is the location of the current exit IP of your VPN? Most services give you a choice, and you probably would not choose Japan. You can use this site to check IP address-based location information:
Second, thank you for sharing your extensions list. This one caught my eye as a potential culprit:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/location-guard/
Can you modify what it tells sites?
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For example, all prices on www.etsy.com ARE IN YEN. ? What is going on??
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E808 said
I use a vpn so nothing like this should have crossed over onto any browser, especially not Firefox.
What is the location of the current exit IP of your VPN? Most services give you a choice, and you probably would not choose Japan. You can use this site to check IP address-based location information:
Second, thank you for sharing your extensions list. This one caught my eye as a potential culprit:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/location-guard/
Can you modify what it tells sites?
Thank you, this is over-whelming for me - whatever is going on is also effecting my usually perfectly functional email, making life very trying at the moment, ie: unable to contact my vpn support...
Japan was the exit IP, btw, thank you. But I've been using the vpn for months, why now is this an issue on the browser? (...Just now checked to see if Safari is affected and it is so this is not specifically a FF issue after all, but FF may wish to figure out how to safeguard against whatever this is.)
Any further suggestions since I am unable to contact my vpn? Thank you!
Just deleted the suspect addon and restarted and Yen are still present...}{hands thrown up!!}}
Which VPN is it? Maybe their site has an FAQ or something, or someone has posted about it on another site.