Re: Off the wall quuestion about browsing.

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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

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