![]() ![]() ![]() folks who post in lower manhattan may see different results than people in College Station, TX, over time.ĭ) We have a lot of anti-spam technology, and what IP you posted from, and what country that IP is in, is important. you'd be surprised how often device timezone may not always match with physical location.Ĭ) We use general location to determine things users may be interested in. This is not a scandal.ī) We want to know where a user is in a general sense for things like tracking timezone so when we send pushes we know not to send pushes at 3 in the morning. The % of all Whispers which are tagged as somewhere in the middle of Kansas because we don't really know where they are (but we know they are in the US) is very high. This is hardly a privacy violation, and it's really important for a bunch of reasons:Ī) The whisper needs to actually appear in the app, and it won't appear without some general location. for instance, my current IP using our service says "USA", though I'm in Venice, CA. ![]() that is so inaccurate as to be laughable. we use a legacy maxmind geoip database so we can put the whisper in a general location. ![]()
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