geolocation in firefox

[sara fink]

it looks like I will have to use some free vpn service


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:38 PM, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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