Comment by prmoustache

Comment by prmoustache 6 days ago

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They are mentionning the country, not the US state.

Supposedly Georgia asked to be part of UE since the Ukraine invasion so it somehow implies at the very least empathy towards Ukraine and not support for the war.

Having said that and taking into account that IP Geolocation is a fantasy and not something that really work reliably in practice, I would totally understand that some people living in Georgia would be geolocalized in Russia because their ISP is a russian company or is using IPs associated with Russia.

I am regularly geolocalized by some websites more that 3000km away from my home. My ISP headquarters and datacenters are in a different country and I guess some of the IP range they use are geolocalized there.

perching_aix 6 days ago

> They are mentionning the country, not the US state.

Yes, I know :) I don't think IP geolocation is so poor that it'd put Georgian residents into Russia. Could be wrong though, of course.

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  • prmoustache 6 days ago

    Then why is it so poor that it sometimes put me in Romania while I am in Spain and closer to Africa than most other european countries but Portugal?

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    • diggan 6 days ago

      > Then why is it so poor that it sometimes

      it being a company that estimates the location based on publicly available information like "This ASN belongs to this corporate entity which is registered in this country/related to this association" and so on.

      There is no official hashmap with "IP => Geographical Location", they're all guesses and estimates.

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  • laken 5 days ago

    a large chunk of Georgian territory is occupied by Russia, Abkhazia is one (which essentially functions as basically a breakaway state but is de facto russian controlled), and South Ossetia (which essentially functions as a de facto Russian oblast). That's probably the issue.

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    • perching_aix 5 days ago

      I think OP would have mentioned that if their goal was to have an honest discussion.

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