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@cienmilojos @wiredfire

They already added restrictions to changing your Country setting.

* You can only do it once every 12 months.

* If you do change, you have to re-add your payment options (if you haven't set it up before). You need a card with the correct local address (as per your Country setting) to add it. Currently, PayPal can bypass that.

* VPN, I won't be surprised if they start blocking it too. I already tried one, even though it's set to the same country I have on my account, it was still rejected. A less known VPN I tried worked. So, I guess it's a matter of time.

Yeah. They should at least provide a temporary option.

Personally, I think it has less to do with security and more to do with combatting taking advantage of relative pricing. In the early days of Play Store:

* People used VPNs to get a better price. They later disabled checking the IP address for Google Play pricing.

* Then people started changing their Google account's Country and adding any global cards. Google later added card address restriction.

* It did not work well, so Google added the 12-month Country-change restriction later.

I guess they still don't like the current situation so now they check the IP address if it matches the Country on the Google account. 😅

At least, that's what I'm thinking.