How to Disable Geolocation in Specific Programs

Gargamel · 04-05-11, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by longam

Knowing where you are has always been available via trace route and your IP address.

Regardless of your browser...

I remember a lot of people used to put up your address or IP in their sig. That little smiley guy holding the sign?

jumpy · 04-05-11, 06:45 PM

So this looks like it's dependent on googles harvesting of wi-fi points?
So if your router isn't wi-fi?

Arclight · 04-06-11, 03:33 AM

Then they can't triangulate it and have to resort to the regular IP trace, I guess.

Not as accurate, but plenty accurate for marketing purposes.

04-05-11, 06:45 PM	#2
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	So this looks like it's dependent on googles harvesting of wi-fi points? So if your router isn't wi-fi? __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

04-06-11, 03:33 AM	#3
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	Then they can't triangulate it and have to resort to the regular IP trace, I guess. Not as accurate, but plenty accurate for marketing purposes. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

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