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Using a geoIP database to figure out where your users are is a bad idea because it never works right
If you need to know where someone is, ask them
Thus spake the octopus
@pettancow not sure an entire article is required in order to say "it doesn't work" but yeah, probably
Notable case: all the places that think I'm in Amsterdam
@troubleMoney Well, it outlined the consequences of careless use of GeoIP, up to and including police raids on a house that was in the geographical center of the US because GeoIP didn't return anything of finer granularity
@troubleMoney I believe there was a very good article on WHY using GeoIP to figure out where your users are is a bad idea