Users with Google’s IP address. How is it possible

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I have a spanish website and I do not allow people from non-european countries to register and to login.

Some time ago I started to receive messages from users who can not login. When I ask for their IP address they tell something like: 66.249.93.202. It's Google's IP adress. How do they get it in their mobile phones? What they have to do to use their real IP address?

Best Answer

What you're seeing is the Google proxy address.
Mobile users with a chrome browser (either Android or iOS) that have the bandwidth management features turned on will often be seen as using one of these addresses as the requester as described here.

In essence the data you're serving is being requested by the Google Data Compression Proxy, optimized and sent back to the end-user.

What they have to do to use their real IP address.

They shouldn't be doing anything differently.
You can check the x-forwarded-for header as explained in the previously linked documentation.

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