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On the contrary. Maybe if you're on a hardwired desktop, but for everything else it is incredibly accurate. You don't even need to have GPS in your device -- Wi
by Viper007Bond 9y ago
On the contrary. Maybe if you're on a hardwired desktop, but for everything else it is incredibly accurate. You don't even need to have GPS in your device -- WiFi is plenty.
Try it: https://whereamirightnow.com/ https://whereamirightnow.com/ It puts my laptop exactly where I am.
- loeg 9y agoWired, it gives me a location 3 miles away from my house. Smartphone, it want to use GPS. That's kind of cheating, isn't it?
- userbinator 9y agoSmartphone, it want to use GPS. That's kind of cheating, isn't it? It is, but it also shows just how much information people could leak if they casually dismiss any permissions prompting with "allow" (or even worse, have such permissions be granted by default.)
- gsich 9y agoWhich makes the removal of the location feature (or the default off) all the more better.
- weberc2 9y agoThe OP said wifi w/o GPS. Give that a shot maybe?
- loeg 9y agoYeah, I tried that, but the mobile version of website refuses to proceed without GPS.
- oxguy3 9y agoI'm on a desktop with no wi-fi card and it's within a stone's throw, how the hell...
- craftyguy 9y ago> It puts my laptop exactly where I am. Did you allow permission for location? Because if you did, it kind of defeats the purpose of showing that disabling this permission helps obscure your location to websites.. On my desktop, it asked for permission, and when denied it threw up its hands and said that it had no idea where I was.
- Viper007Bond 9y agoYes, of course because the comment I was replying to was about location being worthless in general.