When one sees such a statement, one can expect that for view restricted content from other countries in the Google Play Store you will go through a tutorial on VPN networks, location spoofers, store activators or even some modified versions of the Google Play Store.
But it's not like that because this time Google has gotten ahead of us by allowing you to view restricted content from other countries from your Play Store. A great novelty that would be much better if it were content without limits by country, since this time we are in Europe to access apps, movies (with more than 5.000 billion downloads worldwide) and books that until now were only available in those countries; unless we pulled VPNs and more. Go for it.
All content without restrictions in Europe
While we hope that at some point we can access that restricted content worldwide, the thing is now limited to the European region. Namely we're going to have all these EU and EEA countries Available: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Romania and Sweden.
Yes, it seems the list of countries participating in Eurovision. So now users who are in any of those countries in the EEA region will be able to browse Google Play content from other countries. Of course, it must be borne in mind that they will not be allowed to download apps, games or content that is not available in their country.
This measure can come in handy when we are living in a country for a season and we want to know what is the content in our language that is being used the most. So we can know the apps that are being the most fashionable, or the most downloaded books in the Google Play Store. We really do not know the reason why this change has come, but it is interesting that the "limits" are released to be able to explore that content until now regionally restricted.
How to view restricted content in the Play Store of other countries
To see content from another country we will need to open the Google Play Store from a browser. Go for it:
- We open a browser where we are not logged in. If this is the case, we close the session to be able to move on to the next step
- In this case we use Firefox so that we do not have the session started
- Now from the main screen of Google Play from the browser we scroll down
- We have to reach the end to find «Location»
- Click on it and choose any country
- Now all content is displayed as if we were in that country
- Selected, you can see the country in Location
- Whenever you want you can change it, although it will be without login and with a browser to access this function.
This selector is only we have available if we are in those countries said. Although if we are in another region there is another way to see the content by changing the query of the URL. You can replace the «gl» with «ES» for Spain or «IT» for Italy. In this way you can see the comments in your language or know how an uploaded app is doing in a country where a lot has been downloaded.
What we are left with is the shadow of doubt so that Google has launched this new feature to view restricted content from other countries throughout Europe. Perhaps it has to do with the acquisition of Fitbit by the United States and how the data associated with the health of its users could be used for advertising.
