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Has anyone successfully bypassed the region lock? What does it check exactly?

Does it need a US credit card? A US IP address? A Google account with a US phone? A Google account created from a US IP address? Some other way of tying the Google account to a country?

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I'm in the UK and I got passed it, I'm sure Google knows I'm not in the US.

It's available in 150 countries, no need to bypass anything: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14517446?visit_id=6...

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