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Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation?

Posted by timothy on from the ok-but-does-this-get-you-irish-citizenship? dept.

First time accepted submitter AvitarX writes W3C has the IP address where I work as showing up in Ireland (we are in the USA). This is a nuisance for a lot of reasons (many dates now display in European format, prices are listed in euros, search results redirect to google.ie). Some of these issues can be worked around, but it's frustrating. I have searched as best as I can, and only can find information on the geolocation API in HTML5. The office is on a static IP address from Comcast. When I visit whatismyipaddress.com all info is correct except for W3C's result. I have submitted that it is inaccurate; is there anything else I can do? Googling, I have only managed to find usage examples for web developers/designers.

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  1. Re:Geolocation is being abused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can't pick where the geolocation service says you are, yet it is used for everything including content delivery and advertisements.

    And controlling access to content. "Oh woe is me! I can watch Dr. Who on the BBC website and you can't! How can I fix it?!?!?".

    If you insist on watching such poorly produced garbage: thepiratebay.se

  2. Re:W3C does geolocation? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could always try pretending to be in Ireland for tax purposes.

    You'll save money for a decade or two until eventually somebody gets angry enough to try to correct the mistake!

  3. The downside to Ireland... by nitehawk214 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tell your company to stop using Ireland as a tax haven.

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  4. Funniest one I've seen... by ErikTheRed · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of my customers is located in Southern California, but Sun's (now Oracle's) servers refused to give them Java updates because they were geolocated as being in Iran.

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