[jwdavidson]

I have exactly one non-shady use case:

I work with an event org with a fairly common name, and another city in our region has an event with the same name. For some years, we’ve outranked them for major keywords and getting their confused customers was becoming a headache for us.

So now if our website thinks you’re in the other city, a little banner appears above the content asking if you’re looking for the other site, and offers the link.

This has saved us ~10 phone calls per day in season. Before adding this link we all got to the point of just doing their customer service for them and helping people buy tickets because it was less drama than trying to get them to call the right people.

[jamesponddotco]

While I agree that your use-case is not shady, I am not sure how I would work that in the marketing material for the website — maybe I just suck at writing marketing copy.

But in any case, your response does tell me that there are other things that can be done with that information, so maybe I should focus on the IP thing, and have the geolocation features kinda hidden away in the documentation pages.