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Re:Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Custo... by ThrustVectoring on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:59PM (#18885887)
Website owners already know your rough geographic location via IP address. If it's that big of a concern for you, you should route 100% of your traffic through a VPN.
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Re:Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Custo... by greglindahl on Friday January 11, 2019 @05:31PM (#18887824)
GeoIP is not that accurate in many situations, and note that a VPN does not protect you against this kind of targeted ad location leak.

I'm confused by your reference to me and my concerns. This isn't a discussion about me; I was making a point about leakage of location information.

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Re:Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Custo... by ThrustVectoring on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:48PM (#18888349)
I was using the generic you throughout - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you
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