XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: schugo@schugo.de   
      
   On 19.12.2025 21:55, Mark Lloyd wrote:   
   > On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:01:06 +0100, Schugo wrote:   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >> Geolocation uses a large database on the server side which "knows"   
   >> for every IP address in which country it is hosted.   
   >   
   > I just checked 3 sites (Home Depot, Amazon, Google Maps) that use   
   > geolocation and they thought I was in 3 different cities (all about 20-30   
   > miles from me, but in very different directions).   
      
   for most use cases country-exact is enough..   
      
   (TV/Radio stations Geofencing, languange detection (bad!))   
      
   ciao..   
      
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