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To be honest, this is (usually) only used for geotargeting the nearest Anycast address (or Unicast address if you are too small to operate a GeoDNS->Anycast setup). Well, that, and anti-fraud measures to flag transactions for additional verification.

People who are using it for real-world-location and language detection are doing it wrong but being wrong on the internet is a common problem. :/




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