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by zhoujianfu 424 days ago
Ah, thanks for the feedback… I’n just using a geo IP lookup by peoples IP for the first “very rough” location, but I hadn’t considered that even a 7 mile radius can not be very anonymous in rural areas! Hmm.. is there a larger radius you feel you’d be comfortable with? Like 50 miles?
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Yeah, I believe that I'd be comfortable with 20 - that would encompass half a dozen small towns instead of just one, and at that range I know half a dozen tech folks in the area, so it feels less targeted.
Thanks, 20 miles it is! (Or will be when I get back to my computer… or actually I guess I can have Claude change it now)!
Okay, it should be a bigger random range now.. try reloading the page if you’d like!
I'm hesitant to reload it - is it going to log another hit from within my range? Or does it somehow ID me to know that I'm already on the site?
Your unique id is your “device id” so if you visit from the same browser (not incognito mode though) you’ll be the same user.