geolocation in firefox

[E.S. Rosenberg]

Don't forget the site has two ways of guessing where you're from/what
language you want regardless of geolocation:
1. IP as mentioned by Tomer
2. Your browser sends a list of preferred languages to the webserver,
generally the OS locale is the first on the list unless you change it, you
can set/change the order in Edit > Preferences > Content > Languages.


2014-04-16 0:15 GMT+03:00 Tomer Cohen <tomer at gmx.net>:

> The browser geolocation feature meant to provide sites access to an accurate
> location data from a GPS receiver or other techniques. This feature is in
> use by Google Maps as well as some other sites, but require your permission
> before submitting your location data once or per-session.
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Using_geolocation
>
> Sites can't ever access this data without your prior permission. Since
> this is probably not the case, I don't think the geolocation API was used.
> The site in question probably located you by the GeoIP feature, which
> doesn't provide accurate location but a country of origin or estimated
> region in the country. It is more difficult to fake GeoIP since it is based
> only by your IP address, but you can use a proxy or a VPN to remove your
> traces.
>
> Given that said, sometimes it is easier to just change a preference on the
> site to provide you the site in another language (but still this won't
> remove any country restrictions for content).
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:55 PM, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone
>>
>> I changed enable.geolocation to false in firefox, but it still doesn't
>> work with the site that I want to enter. I am still redirected to israeli
>> site instead of the abroad site.
>>
>> Anyone knows why this configuration doesn't work? Is there another way to
>> make it work? I tried the extension of geolocater but this one also doesn't
>> work for new firefox versions
>>
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