geolocation in firefox

[sara fink]

It's not a problem of cookies. I destroy them automatically when firefox
closes.


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:

> Have you checked for cookies? Could it be that the site has already tagged
> you with a cooky and notices a discrepancy? Try maybe also incognito mode.
> On 16 Apr 2014 19:31, "sara fink" <sara.fink at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried to use proxy. The site simply doesn't work with anonymous proxy.
>> I can't even type the data within the site.  I will try also the languages
>> option and as a last resort hola.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Tomer Cohen <tomer at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>>
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>>>
>>
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