Websites cannot see where you are. They look your IP address up in a geolocation database, such as MaxMind, IP2Location or ipinfo, and act on the answer: block the page, redirect to a local store, show local prices or local search results. Geo-blocking is the hard form of that; localisation is the soft one, and for scraping it is the more common problem, because the page loads fine but shows the wrong country's data.
Why it matters for proxy buyers
To collect what a user in a country sees, you need an exit IP that the site's database places in that country. That is what geo-targeting is for. On ProxyHive, ISP IPs are chosen by country, region, city and carrier and datacenter IPs by country, region and city. Residential has no location selection today, so for a specific country use a static IP; locations lists what is available.
Check how sites see an IP
Databases disagree, especially at city level and for newly moved ranges. Ask two of them about your exit:
curl -s -x http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT https://ipinfo.io/json
curl -s -x http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT https://ipapi.co/json/
If they give different countries, a target using a third database may disagree with both. Test against the target itself where it shows a location.
Common confusion
The IP is not the only location signal. Browser timezone and language, a DNS leak that sends you to a distant CDN node, and account settings can all contradict the IP. Using proxies to reach region-limited services can also breach their terms; our allowed-use policy permits availability checks on streaming services but not bulk downloading. This is not legal advice.