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A modern version of the ping-based geoip mentioned https://github.com/Ne00n/yammdb
First, I am big fan of your articles even before I joined IPinfo, where we provide IP geolocation data service. Our geolocation methodology expands on the methodology you described. We utilize some of the publicly available datasets that you are using. However, the core geolocation data comes from our ping-based operation. We ping an IP address from multiple servers across the world and identify the location of the I…
That's pretty neat! You're basically using ping triangulation!
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Does that actually work? That could explain an issue with a particular streaming service I use. There are currently some ongoing routing issues in BGP land and my ISP. When trying to stream, it says I’m using a proxy, so due to the incredible route my packets are taking, that might be it. What’s funny is that the only way to watch this service is to use a vpn right now.
of course it doesnt work but they gotta try clutching pearls and applying whatever pressure they can think of on these fronts
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Thousands of people live in a zip code, while hundreds and thousands of people live in a city. We are literally giving away that data for free through our API and database. The creepiness of IP geolocation is mostly a meme. IP geolocation is mainly used in cybersecurity and marketing analytics. There are many ways to geolocate someone. I once came across a project that could estimate the country a user is from based…
And you're literally advertising this project as being helpful for targeted ads. So it's pretty clear from the get go that what you consider creepy isn't what I consider creepy. And having done enough reidentification work to scare myself, "thousands of people" might as well be a couple dozen or less. I get why you're defensive and why you think it's not creepy, but calling it a "meme" is insultingingly dismissive. J…
When people work in advertising, they mostly forget that the core of their business is for-profit manipulation of people with little or no regard for truth or the people concerned. But I personally think that's kinda creepy, and only getting more so as it goes from broad manipulation of millions via mass media down to thousands, hundreds, or single individuals.
First, I am big fan of your articles even before I joined IPinfo, where we provide IP geolocation data service. Our geolocation methodology expands on the methodology you described. We utilize some of the publicly available datasets that you are using. However, the core geolocation data comes from our ping-based operation. We ping an IP address from multiple servers across the world and identify the location of the I…
ICMP response time not useful for “locating” an anycasted address, some of which have logical location associated with them. See https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/ for an example
First, I am big fan of your articles even before I joined IPinfo, where we provide IP geolocation data service. Our geolocation methodology expands on the methodology you described. We utilize some of the publicly available datasets that you are using. However, the core geolocation data comes from our ping-based operation. We ping an IP address from multiple servers across the world and identify the location of the I…
If you don't want to do this yourself, you can actually just get Cloudflare to do it for you for free using a simple Worker since all Cloudflare requests contain approximate IP location information. You can also just send a request to my URL (Cloudflare Worker operated - so it should have global low latency): https://www.edenmaps.net/iplocation Use it for small applications, I don't mind. Just don't start sending me…
Located 100km from the Somali coast... I'm in Brussels, Belgium, thx for protecting my privacy :D
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In the business of media streaming, rightholder will require that you check for vpn and proxies in addition to countries when deciding if a given viewer will be able to stream a given media.
Does that actually work? That could explain an issue with a particular streaming service I use. There are currently some ongoing routing issues in BGP land and my ISP. When trying to stream, it says I’m using a proxy, so due to the incredible route my packets are taking, that might be it. What’s funny is that the only way to watch this service is to use a vpn right now.
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of course it doesnt work but they gotta try clutching pearls and applying whatever pressure they can think of on these fronts
Why is this getting downvoted? It seems to me that a lot of the media-focused anti-piracy tooling is essentially a performance of toughness to make rightsholder execs comfortable. Everybody accepts you can't stop piracy entirely, and nobody's willing to say, "Fuck it, we'll compete on convenience and strong consumer relationships," so we all put up with this weird middle ground of performative DRM and the like. With…
[Harp music, progressive diagonal wave distortions through the viewport ...]
We had two layers of passwords (one to get to the webpage for the class, one when actually streaming via the client, which was RealPlayer) as well as an IP range restriction to campus (you live off campus? So sorry) because our lawyers were worried about what the RIAA's lawyers would find sufficient in the wake of a bunch of Napster-baited lawsuits launched at universities. The material itself was largely limited to snippets.
I wanted to say, "Calm down, have a martini or something. College students are just not going to go wild to download 128 kbps segments of old classical music," but alas I was not in charge.
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There's several options/techniques for doing it. But just imagine you have a permanent zero overhead VPN. I don't know if that provider terminates long running calls, but the calls would stay up too regardless of tower.
Yes, I’m sure it is iOS anti-tracking and directly related to why firewall apps inside SIP my not know what is going on.