Comment by Zak
11 days ago
I've had the websites of two American store chains (Napa and Publix) block me while standing inside their stores because my prepaid eSIM from airhub.com geolocates to Israel. I'd really like to know what's in the heads of people who come up with this sort of crap.
> I'd really like to know what's in the heads of people who come up with this sort of crap.
They probably think that geolocation always perfectly works based on the physical location and don't consider edge cases like people with roaming SIMs (which is what I think a lot of those cheap data-only eSIMs effectively are) geolocating to their home country even when abroad.
Though by now you'd think that people are aware the e.g. the Google/Apple app store region locking basically locks out all tourists, but it seems that even that isn't necessarily common knowledge…