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Re:LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a ba... by utternerd on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:38PM (#14091658)
Interestingly the coordinates I get in the footer are 33.6751, -117.7339 which is some undeveloped land inside the Orange County Great Park - perhaps what it gives back is based on GeoIP?
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Re:LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a ba... by psiclops on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:46PM (#14091734)
Yeah I wasn't getting coordinates till I turned off ublock
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Re:LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a ba... by beaconstudios on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:42PM (#14091686)
It is, I got a location in the north of England where I'm based.
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Re:LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a ba... by liber8 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:36AM (#14095044)
Interesting. I'm using a VPN so GeoIP didn't occur to me.
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Re:LOT – A subscription-based service which distributes a ba... by H4CK3RM4N on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:33AM (#14096980)
Could it be some variant of Geohashing?

https://www.xkcd.com/426/

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