Interent Question

[Jeff Gaines]

I stream radio to avoid having an aerial fitted. Are the broadcasters able
to work out my location? I seem to get a lot of local adverts.

I thought they would only be able to pick up the point at which I was
inserted into the Internet.

[Andy Burns]

Post by Jeff Gaines
I stream radio to avoid having an aerial fitted. Are the broadcasters
able to work out my location?

'ish.

Post by Jeff Gaines
I seem to get a lot of local adverts.
I thought they would only be able to pick up the point at which I was
inserted into the Internet.

Geolocating IP addrs is not a precise science, when it works well I
might get adverts for the local FE college, when it's not doing so well
I get adverts, in Welsh, for NHS blood donation ...

Generally I like the fact that their location is quite fuzzy.

[Theo]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Jeff Gaines
I stream radio to avoid having an aerial fitted. Are the broadcasters
able to work out my location?

'ish.

Post by Jeff Gaines
I seem to get a lot of local adverts.
I thought they would only be able to pick up the point at which I was
inserted into the Internet.

Geolocating IP addrs is not a precise science, when it works well I
might get adverts for the local FE college, when it's not doing so well
I get adverts, in Welsh, for NHS blood donation ...
Generally I like the fact that their location is quite fuzzy.

It's possible that some device you have at home will 'improve' the
geolocation. For example, if you have Google Maps open with location turned
on an Android phone, I think Google will phone home the (IP; GPS coords)
pair. They do that for legitimate purposes (location to know where to
centre the map and what traffic is nearby, and the IP to send you the
answer) but I couldn't say for sure they don't also update a geo IP database
(which Google would then use to sling ads). Obviously that's going to be
misleading for a mobile network but it might work for designated fixed
broadband networks.

Of course what'll happen next is your ISP changes your dynamic IP and, until
you run Maps again, you get the geolocation of the previous user of that IP.

Theo

[Andy Burns]

Post by Theo
It's possible that some device you have at home will 'improve' the
geolocation. For example, if you have Google Maps open with location turned
on an Android phone, I think Google will phone home the (IP; GPS coords)
pair.

yesbut, I have a bank of 8 IPs and masquerade some devices differently
to others ...

[Abandoned Trolley]

Post by Jeff Gaines
I stream radio to avoid having an aerial fitted. Are the broadcasters
able to work out my location? I seem to get a lot of local adverts.
I thought they would only be able to pick up the point at which I was
inserted into the Internet.

What are you streaming to / with - and are you using an "app" ?

[Jeff Gaines]

Post by Abandoned Trolley

Post by Jeff Gaines
I stream radio to avoid having an aerial fitted. Are the broadcasters
able to work out my location? I seem to get a lot of local adverts.
I thought they would only be able to pick up the point at which I was
inserted into the Internet.

What are you streaming to / with - and are you using an "app" ?

Radios.

A Roberts Stream-93i in the bedroom and a Yamaha RX-S601D in the lounge. I
don't notice local ads on the Yamaha but it is very much background music
to me.

[David]

Post by Jeff Gaines
I stream radio to avoid having an aerial fitted. Are the broadcasters
able to work out my location? I seem to get a lot of local adverts.
I thought they would only be able to pick up the point at which I was
inserted into the Internet.

My results are anomalous (as already discussed by others).
Scary messages from Avast telling me I am expose to the Internet just list
the point where my VM connection joins the big bad Internet (about 15
miles away).

Some mapping pages seem to know my exact location and as this PC doesn't
have GPS and as I don't deliberately synchronise between PCs and phones
this must be due to arcane magic.

Or it remembers when I use my home town as a start/end point for route
calculation.

Or Amazon tells on me.

Or something.

Cheers



Dave R

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

Post by David
Scary messages from Avast

Avast of course has solid business reasons to try and scare you.

Cheers - Jaimie

[Vir Campestris]

Post by David
Or Amazon tells on me.

We've got an Echo Dot, and obviously Amazon know my address. A couple of
years ago it started giving us weather for the nearest city, rather than
the town just down the road over the county boundary.

Andy