28 Feb
2009
28 Feb
'09
2:36 p.m.
Aaron Konstam wrote:
I notice that when I browse certain sites they can determing what city I live in. How is that done? I can't figure that out.
It's based on your IP, and various databases (some more accurate and/or precise than others). You can use tor (http://www.torproject.org/) and/or a traditional HTTP proxy (http://proxy.org/) to get around this.
Matt Flaschen