How to change a cloud agent's browser country without a VPN

This page as markdown: https://aluvia.io/geo/without-a-vpn.md

A laptop VPN is an app a person installs, signs into, and toggles before they browse. NordVPN, and apps like it, expect the human's machine. A cloud agent's Chrome runs on a VM, and that VM cannot turn on a laptop VPN app.

To change cloud agent browser country without a VPN, install Aluvia on that VM. The same command is how you change cloud Chrome geo without VPN settings in DevTools or a consumer app: aluvia proxy-on --geo US sends the existing Chrome through a residential or mobile IP in the country you set. The site reads that IP and returns that country's page. Country only, not city. Aluvia is not a VPN, and this page is not a pitch for one.

The command

npx aluvia-cli setup
aluvia geos
aluvia proxy-on --geo US

Replace US. Country only, not city. Sticky sessions last up to 30 minutes.

What this is not

This is not a human VPN, not a way to unlock a stream, and not a city picker. Aluvia does not write GPS, timezone, or Accept-Language. It will not open a login wall. Fingerprint, Linux Chrome, TLS, and canvas can still fail after the exit IP changes.