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by baggy_trough 494 days ago
Probably from IP address geolocation.
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abound 494 days ago
Indeed, the article notes that the lat/long wasn't "GPS exact", more like "postal code exact".
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xenic 494 days ago
Doing that on the client side sounds pointless though, if you are already transmitting the ip.
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baggy_trough 491 days ago
It might be for consistency between vendors.
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