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Originally posted by rav0
They look up the location of your IP address, and it usually points to your ISP. My ISP is based in NSW (their only pop is there), Australia, and that's where I am, and that's what I get told my location is when I look it up by IP address. The suburb is wrong though. My ISP offers services Australia-wide, and even a user in another state get's told that their in NSW because that's where the ISP is.
Firstly, not all IP-locators do a live trace to your ISP etc. every single time you visit their webpage or whatever, many of them use IP databases because blocks of IPs are registered to different countries (well ISPs in the country).
Secondly, tracking it down to the location of your ISP is an estimate of your location anyway so my statement is still just as valid.
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