Look What I Found For Sale

[Coss]

It's strange; I'm in the Pacific NW and it was showing me FL, VA, GA, and other east coast items for sale.
Oh well, it's gone now so it's a rather moot point.

You really shouldn't let your computer broadcast your location.
Just one of those IT security things.

 

[Elio Amazed]

I don't.

My service provider does.

Never learned how to do the proxy/bounce thing.

 

[Ty]

Well, it looks like the link isn't working anymore anyways. All well.

Oh well
As an interjection expressing resignation or mild disappointment, oh well has no comma.

 

[Sethodine]

Oh well
As an interjection expressing resignation or mild disappointment, oh well has no comma.

I believe we've had this discussion before. Call it a personal quirk of mine.

YOU KNOW, LIKE THE ONE GUY WHO ALWAYS TALKS LIKE THIS.

 

[Coss]

I don't.

My service provider does.

Never learned how to do the proxy/bounce thing.

You're doing it with your browser settings; you have to go into settings and click the "send the Do Not Track to website requesting my location"
Has nothing to do with your ISP. If you use the Google Toolbar, you have to turn off the "Send my Location"
There are a number of different places where you have to tell your computer to opt out of certain features. (Features = Security Holes)
I don't use a proxy either; but I do know what to do in my router.

 

[Marshall]

Oh well
As an interjection expressing resignation or mild disappointment, oh well has no comma.

Oh? Well... I'll have to think about that.

 

[Elio Amazed]

You're doing it with your browser settings; you have to go into settings and click the "send the Do Not Track to website requesting my location"
Has nothing to do with your ISP. If you use the Google Toolbar, you have to turn off the "Send my Location"
There are a number of different places where you have to tell your computer to opt out of certain features. (Features = Security Holes)
I don't use a proxy either; but I do know what to do in my router.

OK, I use IE 9 and I've done that.
I've also done work on a enterprise level site and I got almost all of the visitors general locations from their IP addresses.
If I was really concerned with getting specific and as many locations as I could , I could have turned to google for help with tracking.
I researched it heavily a number of years ago and there are a number of ways to get around browser settings to track locations on PCs.
Phones? Hah! Don't even think you're going to somehow ever going to be untrackable.

I just don't think it's that much of a threat to merit doing the over the top things required to make it absolutely 100% 'bulletproof'.
Just be a bit mindful of what you say, and the images you upload, online.

Here's a quote from one of the security add-ons available for IE...

"As described in this blog post, Google is currently circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users. By default, IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site’s use does not include tracking the user. Google’s P3P policy causes Internet Explorer to accept Google’s cookies even though the policy does not state Google’s intent."

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/02/20/google-bypassing-user-privacy-settings.aspx

And yes, at one point in time sites used to get my general location (although very general) via my ISP hub.

 

[Rob Croson]

You're doing it with your browser settings; you have to go into settings and click the "send the Do Not Track to website requesting my location"

I do not think this means what you think it means.

"Do Not Track" has nothing to do with your physical location. It is a polite request for the web site to not set a personally identifying cookie in your browser. i.e., you are asking the web to "please don't track my browsing habits". Compliance with the request is COMPLETELY VOLUNTARY. For more info: http://donottrack.us/

When a web site wants to know where a user is located, it has a few options. First, it can ask your browser to report your location. Most browsers will ask you if you want to share that info. (You see this a lot on mobile browsers, where your device could potentially have accurate GPS data.) Secondly, they can infer your location from your IP address, using GEOIP. The only control you have over that is by using a proxy to mask your IP address.

 

[Coss]

That's why I have to end up using 3 different browsers, Edge, Chrome and IE 11
Each one does different functions for me thanks to Win10 with no Flash or Java.
Really frustrating if you go to work on one thing, while you're in another browser.

And your mention about the cookies, don't forget then new Super cookies (thanks to Amazon and Google)

 

[bunchathrees]

Super cookies sound delicious.