Re:Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP
by habibur on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:22PM
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They don't get it from your HTTP req.
They get it from your GPS on your android sending the mac address with your location to google servers.
And then later your TV sending the same mac address to google and asking "what's my location?".
Google associates your TV's request with your phones data using the mac address. And then the browser communicates with your OS using the location service API, a virtual GPS on your TV that only uses MAC address and google's server, to get the result.
They get it from your GPS on your android sending the mac address with your location to google servers.
And then later your TV sending the same mac address to google and asking "what's my location?".
Google associates your TV's request with your phones data using the mac address. And then the browser communicates with your OS using the location service API, a virtual GPS on your TV that only uses MAC address and google's server, to get the result.