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IP-based geolocation is a crapshoot. I frequently get teleported to Eastern Europe, Finland, USA, or Canada, despite living very far from all of them.
by 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
IP-based geolocation is a crapshoot. I frequently get teleported to Eastern Europe, Finland, USA, or Canada, despite living very far from all of them.
- mkl 5y agoIn practice I've found it works pretty well. Every geolocation service I've tried (just did 6-7 now) gets my country right, and more than half get the city/region. I've always had it get online students' locations right too.