Yeah, the second one says that but returns for me a very weird location - a few hundred km out. The first one returns a location close to where most IP locators think I am - which is a BT data centre location 500km away....
I have of course to allow location for both, when prompted.
Neither produced your error though.
If I was you I'd really wonder what info it's pulling to get that c 500m location, when it does work!!
I have of course to allow location for both, when prompted.
Neither produced your error though.
If I was you I'd really wonder what info it's pulling to get that c 500m location, when it does work!!
koda you could try check the geolocation setting in your ff browser by typing about:config in the url bar,
accept the warning and then type in geo.enabled to see if it's enabled or not.
Try also type in only geo to get all things geo in the list.
In my ff I get virtually the same coordinates as in brave, just that the map doesn't show up but that's due to me having fiddled a bit too much with all its settings.
accept the warning and then type in geo.enabled to see if it's enabled or not.
Try also type in only geo to get all things geo in the list.
In my ff I get virtually the same coordinates as in brave, just that the map doesn't show up but that's due to me having fiddled a bit too much with all its settings.
Wow. When I go to porn sites the "Available women in S****** near you!" are always 3 towns over.
All other trackers are much further out. Some do seem to go by ISP's poor logging, others are wild (20 mile) guesses.
Your link misses, but by less than 1.5 miles. It gets the town name wrong, it goes by ZIP not by tax-man, but nobody gets that right (it is all the same to the mail carrier).
I'm still curious as to where they get the info. Probably sourcing it from google, or someone that you have given some location info... I'm glad they can't find me! 🙂
Isn't some of that to fuzz out your exact location? There was an article a few years back about people's houses getting stormed by angry mobs because the generic IP for their town pointed right to the house. So if someone in you town was doing bad things, people online saw the IP address as "Riverdale" and that happened to point to your front door.
I doubt that I'll ever find that article again, but I know what changes had to be made.
I doubt that I'll ever find that article again, but I know what changes had to be made.
With Opera, I get this... 58 Brownlow is about 500 meters from me. IP based address puts me in Ottawa childrens hospital!
EDIT: If I use NordVPN to connect to "Canada", it puts my IP address about 1½km from here...
EDIT: If I use NordVPN to connect to "Canada", it puts my IP address about 1½km from here...
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That's why a lot of people are using VPN services I think. Still, not a big deal if you aren't breaking the law, right?
Here's another thing to try out for koda, if you haven't yet, if it fails just reply in "it didn't work", no pics needed.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/k...g=troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
I clicked too fast and reset the firefox profile... That seems to have made geoip work again though...
Do note that usually the geolocation takes you to the physical location of your ISP. Mine resolves to their downtown facility.
dave
My ISP is 400 miles away (so we can't storm the boardroom). No net-location service ever pointed to Connecticut as "me". There is a tendency here for look-ups to return a swamp 20 miles north of town, which appears to be the top corner of this ZIP code. For me, very often a semi-large town out on the island which is more likely to have a wild woman than my tiny village.
On nearly any cellphone, good GPS is available. My Maps app shows lat/long to 6 digits after the decimal point (it's not really that good). More to the point, it shows a Street View with MY garbage can!! The day I threw-out a bunch of foam. It was actually a real pain to send this to myself (at desktop), but I'm sure Google sees it before I do.
https://www.geolocation.com/
These within-a-mile hits: It appears that Google is collecting locations from users on its search pages. This fails on my desktop (no GPS and no clear way to pin me manually). I suspect a neighbor around the corner let Google use his GPS (hard to avoid on stock cellphones) while on WiFi (to local ISP). IP-proximity worked on a college campus, but in a cable network....? Hmmmm, tracert might back-track the ISP's pole-boxes. In fact the location may not be "a neighbor" but where my cable's last booster is? I could go over and look.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/geolocation
https://w3c.github.io/geolocation-api/
Normally mine has not. It's usually within the region, but not at the IPS office or any facility that I can figure.
I'm still confused as to why anyone would want this service to work! It's like you want to be tracked and hassled...
I can't speak to extensions... it's never ending battle. Most browsers spy on you a lot. Things you can/should do.
1. Set your DNS to a private for all connections. 1.1.1.1 is most well known, works great. Also app available for free on cellphones.
2. Almost every browser is built on Chromium. Stop using the Google'd version. On Linux you just download Chromium. The creators don't make it obvious for downloading it for everyone else. Here's the best website (safe) to get it from without having to make a distro. https://chromium.woolyss.com/download/
3. If you want to use FireFox but hate their censorship and other ****, try LibreWolf.... It's a chromium built with FireFox's stuff but without the direction a-holes in it.
4. Brave is not bad. But as some have noted it doesn't always work great. IMO you use multiple browsers anyways.
Using multiple browsers is wise. Junk browser, another you access important stuff on like bank, and a third for crypto. Best policy is to make sure the default is the junk browser so bad links don't take over things that matter a lot. For example some people had their metamasks emptied clicking on discord browser links. Simple answer, don't have discord linked to a browser with anything import etc...
1. Set your DNS to a private for all connections. 1.1.1.1 is most well known, works great. Also app available for free on cellphones.
2. Almost every browser is built on Chromium. Stop using the Google'd version. On Linux you just download Chromium. The creators don't make it obvious for downloading it for everyone else. Here's the best website (safe) to get it from without having to make a distro. https://chromium.woolyss.com/download/
3. If you want to use FireFox but hate their censorship and other ****, try LibreWolf.... It's a chromium built with FireFox's stuff but without the direction a-holes in it.
4. Brave is not bad. But as some have noted it doesn't always work great. IMO you use multiple browsers anyways.
Using multiple browsers is wise. Junk browser, another you access important stuff on like bank, and a third for crypto. Best policy is to make sure the default is the junk browser so bad links don't take over things that matter a lot. For example some people had their metamasks emptied clicking on discord browser links. Simple answer, don't have discord linked to a browser with anything import etc...
Ghostery, and adguard DNS...
And I'm running Opera again.
And if I want Chromium, I just install it from AUR... I already compile the ffmpeg chromium plugins from the 1.1 GB of source code lol
I did a DNS benchmark and I'm now using Sprint 204.117.214.10 since it's the fastest on my connection.
Adguard DNS is nice to block ads and trackers at the DNS level...
Default servers
If you want to block ads and trackers.
IPv4:
94.140.14.14
94.140.15.15
IPv6:
2a10:50c0::ad1:ff
2a10:50c0::ad2:ff
And I'm running Opera again.
And if I want Chromium, I just install it from AUR... I already compile the ffmpeg chromium plugins from the 1.1 GB of source code lol
I did a DNS benchmark and I'm now using Sprint 204.117.214.10 since it's the fastest on my connection.
Adguard DNS is nice to block ads and trackers at the DNS level...
Default servers
If you want to block ads and trackers.
IPv4:
94.140.14.14
94.140.15.15
IPv6:
2a10:50c0::ad1:ff
2a10:50c0::ad2:ff
I ran Opera almost exclusively for 10 years and liked it a lot. IIRD I ran it on BeOS too. When I joined this forum I was on Opera. I had it set fairly well to not track me and got almost no targeted ads. Back then there weren't for many things like Ghostery and other browsers weren't very private. Plus, Opera had a nice built in mail client. But Opera tried to do things right, and the browser got less and less compatible, and they split of (and ruined) the email client. So now I used a different browser, and it's not Chromium based. Works well for me.
Since I started Internet surfing and web browsing in a Unix terminal, just about any modern web browser seems wonderful to me. 😀
Since I started Internet surfing and web browsing in a Unix terminal, just about any modern web browser seems wonderful to me. 😀
