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Comment by noizejoy

2 years ago

I’m duplicating my comment elsewhere in this thread, so each serves as a direct reply to the different geolocation providers in this thread, in the hope that it will be recognized as a problem with data that implies that it’s more precise than it really is:

> On one hand, I love that there’s some good alternatives in the geolocation space, but misleading geolocation precision can lead to very undesirable side effects[0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/maxmind-m...