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   Andy Burns to Carlos E. R.   
   Re: How did Malibu Media find the exact    
   25 Oct 23 20:06:31   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: usenet@andyburns.uk   
      
   Carlos E. R. wrote:   
      
   > For me, it says somewhere in Madrid, where I guess the offices of my   
   > current ISP are registered, which happens to be 4 Km of my actual location.   
   >   
   > But google maps locates me much more accurately, and I am not logged in.   
      
   I have a /29 subnet, normally everything goes out with a single source   
   IP addr, so I set up a specific NAT rule for this laptop to use a   
   different IP, started a private browsing window, obviously not logged   
   into google.   
      
   checked with whatsmyip.org that the NAT rule was taking effect, and   
   google maps *still* knows which village I live in ...   
      
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