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A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It got the country wrong for me. I didn't use a VPN or anything. So that's good I guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Hm, wonder why that'd be -- it implies heavily that it bases the country on the IP address, which in theory is done by looking at what company the address is registered to, for the most part. Like I'm guessing it got my city wrong, because it used an address that the ISP provides for the IP range, which isn't the same as the city I'm in, because the ISP uses it to cover numerous cities around the broader region. I reckon if you're using something like Starlink, or other similar international-ish provider that may be very loose in how they associated addresses, it'd fail most times.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I was on mobile data, who knows where the mobile network gets their connection from

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Ah, makes some sense. The mobile networks are even more erratic with how they assign IPs -- though I'd still be a little surprised if it was the wrong country entirely. It'd imply the provider is using IPs from a single range in multiple legal jurisdictions, which'd inherently make things like geofencing more difficult. Sorta like VPN functionality to access foreign data regions, as a result of sloppy configuration and negligence by the ISP. Wonder if it could also be something to do with IPV6 -- I think that's more common to see amongst mobile networks, and I'm honestly not too sure how well that can get mapped to geo locations -- I'd doubt the site, how its put together, would be tryin too hard to sort that out.

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