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how the hell can they find my exact location?

• jodrellblank 17y ago
  How exact are we talking? IP Geolocation has been around a long time, but isn't very exact. Are you an Opera user? They have links with the Skyhook WiFi access point databases to locate people (like the iPhone 2G does) - http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/03/26_2/ http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/03/26_2/
  • crocowhile 17y ago
    The block were I live! I am on a netbook (wiki) with chrome, no GPS.
  • crocowhile 17y ago
    Alright, I figured it out. They go through the data collected by google through the street view car: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-google-collects-wifi-data.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-google-collects... That's the only way they can know the coordinates of were I live since it's a residential area and the only wifi I see are mine and the two from the neighbors.