Comment 31DX Geolocation is fun!

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Geolocation is fun! (Score: 1)

by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-02-13 15:02 (#31DX)

I can't believe they used geo-ip lookup as part of their safety check up. They wildly missed on where my phone and tablet last logged in from. My ISP often assigns an ip address that was once assumed to be in a different section of the country. If I didn't know that, I might have been unnecessarily freaked out. I mean these are nexus devices that have location sharing turned on, and were connected to wifi. Google knows *exactly* where they were, and it wasn't what they reported because the just used geo ip lookups. Dorks.

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2015-02-13 15:02
I can't believe they used geo-ip locationkup as part of their safety check up. They wildly missed on where my phone and tablet last logged in from. My ISP often assigns an ip address that was once assumed to be in a different section of the country. If I didn't know that, I might have been unnecessarily freaked out. I mean these are nexus devices that have location sharing turned on, and were connected to wifi. Google knows *exactly* where they were, and it wasn't what they reported because the just used geo ip lookups. Dorks.

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