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It's the best there is and good enough for most business purposes. Regulations may require you not to do business with people in certain countries so you have t
by basilikum 1y ago
It's the best there is and good enough for most business purposes. Regulations may require you not to do business with people in certain countries so you have to do a good faith effort not to provide your services to those people. GeoIP, despite just being an indicator or correlation rather than objective truth, just happens to be that good faith effort.
- alwa 1y ago…and for that matter, the more people game GeoIP like this, the less it’s “good enough.” The regulatory imperative isn’t going anywhere, even if we degrade our good-enough, handshake-based, AS-operator-trusting system. If history is any guide, any replacement technology might look a lot more intrusive and a lot more onerous: the first thought that comes to mind is some kind of DRM-style, device-based, attested location surveillance (tied to a government ID? Why not?!) as “proof of location,” and I’m sure the powers that be could come up with “better”…
- palata 1y ago> any replacement technology might look a lot more intrusive Unfortunately, I don't think that not gaming GeoIP will change that. It's going there already.