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by omoikane 789 days ago
I appreciate Pixiv letting users set their preferred region and actually respecting that setting, unlike Twitter which ignores the user's "country" setting and do all ad targeting using GeoIP instead.
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It's especially nice given that a fair number of Japanese websites are aggressive about blocking foreign registrations even to the extent of blacklisting known VPN nodes. First thing I did upon reading this headline was confirming that my actually-created-in-Japan account hadn't ever had its location setting autoupdated by geoip.