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thank you for the context. It feels like in the last year or two the focus on Geo detection and Geo blocking has grown substantially. For example, many websites

thank you for the context. It feels like in the last year or two the focus on Geo detection and Geo blocking has grown substantially. For example, many websites seem like they won’t take any traffic at all from certain countries. and they will go to some lengths to try to detect the source country of the connection even when a VPN is in the path. I don’t really know how they do this, but it’s evident from various language features in browsers that get triggered.

Bender 1y ago
I don’t really know how they do this, but it’s evident from various language features in browsers that get triggered One clue comes from accept-language. If a person sets the primary language to en-US or en-GB they might also have additional languages that were automatically set based on their OS preferences. Another clue comes from cookies. Many sites use CF so there will be session cookies from CF that were set by other sites but are shared by their insight domain and others and this is even before we talk about javascript. To use sites that use CF usually requires enabling javascript and that gives mountains of data away. There are others here that know much more about this than I.
- coderatlarge 1y ago
  thanks for the note. i don’t speak the local language so maybe it’s gotten enabled in some indirect way. and js there isn’t much anyone can do about it seems when interacting with a “modern” web page. i have this day-dream that i’ll learn enough about linux networking to setup one of my boxes as a filter for all my traffic and properly encrypt and observe and properly filter out stray traffic that may be giving me away, but that’s probably a fool’s errand too on some level. also i suspect macos leaks info in various hard to secure ways.

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thank you for the context. It feels like in the last year or two the focus on Geo detection and Geo blocking has grown substantially. For example, many websites

by coderatlarge 1y ago

Bender 1y ago
I don’t really know how they do this, but it’s evident from various language features in browsers that get triggered One clue comes from accept-language. If a person sets the primary language to en-US or en-GB they might also have additional languages that were automatically set based on their OS preferences. Another clue comes from cookies. Many sites use CF so there will be session cookies from CF that were set by other sites but are shared by their insight domain and others and this is even before we talk about javascript. To use sites that use CF usually requires enabling javascript and that gives mountains of data away. There are others here that know much more about this than I.
- coderatlarge 1y ago
  thanks for the note. i don’t speak the local language so maybe it’s gotten enabled in some indirect way. and js there isn’t much anyone can do about it seems when interacting with a “modern” web page. i have this day-dream that i’ll learn enough about linux networking to setup one of my boxes as a filter for all my traffic and properly encrypt and observe and properly filter out stray traffic that may be giving me away, but that’s probably a fool’s errand too on some level. also i suspect macos leaks info in various hard to secure ways.