I mean fair enough, i use this version of Spotify and don’t pay them a single cent: https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/
But if I was a paying customer i would be pretty pissed opening Spotify the first time on my 3 week travels and seeing this crap :-O Funnily there isn’t even an option to change the location as suggested. Neither in the modded app nor on spotify.com on FF mobile.
I’m a paying customer and I don’t have this problem.
Considering that i have a free account registered to a 10 min mail and paying customers don’t seem to have that problem… It might be some kind of protection against manipulating the charts aswell.