[reitanuki]

I noticed this just recently — DuckDuckGo failed me and then I fell back to google eventually and noticed that the footer showed the village we live in (tiny) which really shocked me/creeped me out. We're not even on a static IP anymore but a dynamic IP... Noteworthy is that Android by default has an option to 'enhance location accuracy' and it says it sends data back to Google. I consider myself fairly savvy about taming an Android phone but unfortunately this is not one I was aware of. I disabled that on my partner's phone, which is where I suspect the leak came from (they also use Google Maps occasionally; I suspected that probably feeds the information in as well).

Since avoiding using these things, IP location seems to be inaccurate as it should be again.