How do the internet people know where I am?!

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OK, you know how maps on some websites centre on the location they think you're at, and how when you go on websites like torrent searches you get ads saying "Meet hot girls in London tonight!" (replacing London with your home town)?

Well I had that on my old laptop, and it knew what village I lived in - presumeably through the ISP.

Now I've bought a new laptop, and moved. I am about 350 miles away from that village. This laptop has never, ever been there. Yet it still has the same village name for me! This village only has about 1,000 people living in it!

How is this?!
 
They watch you fap through the window therfore they know where you are and what kind of local girls/boys you like :eek:
 
Lol @ this thread.

As above, the rough locality of a lot of IP addresses are quite easily tracked...and as in the other thread only a day or two ago, sometimes you can get everything up to and including your address with an IP address and a quick lookup.
 
firefox + adblock plus (with easylist subscription) = no more 'meet hot girls your age in cardiff today'
 
Aekeron said:
Lol @ this thread.

As above, the rough locality of a lot of IP addresses are quite easily tracked...and as in the other thread only a day or two ago, sometimes you can get everything up to and including your address with an IP address and a quick lookup.
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WRONG!!!

The real way its done, involves a little gremlin living inside your PC case. He holds a little GPS device that tracks his location and gives him coordinates of where he is.

He then uses this information and calls back to HQ and tells them where you are, then "they" amend the website to make it specific to you.

;)
 
Yeah, I used some fancy software that beeps a lot to trace the packets back to the source, blah blah....oh wait, this isn't Spooks.

newy.blueyonder.co.uk was a bit of a giveaway though...
 
Knubje said:
WRONG!!!

The real way its done, involves a little gremlin living inside your PC case. He holds a little GPS device that tracks his location and gives him coordinates of where he is.

He then uses this information and calls back to HQ and tells them where you are, then "they" amend the website to make it specific to you.

;)
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Damn it. I hate it when "they" get involved :/
 
No, I don't think you get it!

I live in the North, I used to live in the South.

They think I live in this village - but the laptops never been there.

It's just I used to live there....

I understand it's perfectly normal for them to know where I am now.
 
Well my crystal ball didn't tell me that, that might be why we don't get it - if you didn't actually tell us that...

Changed ISP or something?
 
_PD_ said:
No, I don't think you get it!

I live in the North, I used to live in the South.

They think I live in this village - but the laptops never been there.

It's just I used to live there....

I understand it's perfectly normal for them to know where I am now.
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It means your wife has been cheating on you and using the laptop at her lover's house in that village.
 
tolien said:
Well my crystal ball didn't tell me that, that might be why we don't get it - if you didn't actually tell us that...

Changed ISP or something?
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I did! I just didn't explain it very well.

Changed ISP, laptop AND house.

Wtf?!
 
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