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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:32:54 -0500
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Subject: Re: GeoIP2 for retrieving city and region ?
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On 2013-07-13 16:57, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 07/13/2013 12:23 PM, =CE=9D=CE=B9=CE=BA=CF=8C=CE=BB=CE=B1=CF=82 wrote:
> > Do you know a way of implementing anyone of these methods to a
> > script?
>=20
> Yes.  Modern browsers all support a location API in the browser for
> javascript.=20

And the good browsers give the user the option to disclose this
information or not (and, as I mentioned elsewhere on this thread,
even lie about where you are such as with the Geolocater plugin[1] for
FF).

Some of us value the modicum of privacy that we receive by not being
locatable by IP address.

-tkc

[1]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/geolocater/