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Re:A web page that shows you everything the browser told it ... by ramon156 on Friday May 08, 2026 @11:21AM (#48064441)
Its mixing confidential info. For example, you know I'm connected from a location, but you do not know my precise location. I connected from a tower that is from Odido, but I am not paying Odido for a subscription.
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Re:A web page that shows you everything the browser told it ... by mwheelz on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:00PM (#48064988)
Right, IP-to-geo is approximate and gets a lot of cases wrong (yours among them). Most ad networks use it as a region/DMA hint, and not precise positioning. The point of including it isn't precision. It's that any location is more than nothing, and the visitor never opted in.
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