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herczegzsolt • 01/21/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

The accuracy of this geolocalization depends very much on peering agreements.

I don't know about the UD bit this will not be very accurate within the EU.

As an example: In Hungary, there's pretty much only one peering hub (bix) and there's only one Cloudflare datacenter. You've already geolocated me better than this hack just by knowing my language or phone prefix.


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Einenlum • 01/21/2025

It's not because you have a Hungarian number that you're not travelling somewhere else. I don't really understand the point.

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