Re: geolocation in firefox
Hola (hola.org) might be able to help you re IP addresses. Rony On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Tomer Cohen to...@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.f...@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 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Ubi dubium, ibi libertas (where there is doubt, there is freedom) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: geolocation in firefox
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 to...@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.f...@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 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: geolocation in firefox
I checked the languages settings in firefox. It has only english. The OS has english and hebrew. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:42 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.ilwrote: Don't forget the site has two ways of guessing where you're from/what language you want regardless of geolocation: 1. IP as mentioned by Tomer 2. Your browser sends a list of preferred languages to the webserver, generally the OS locale is the first on the list unless you change it, you can set/change the order in Edit Preferences Content Languages. 2014-04-16 0:15 GMT+03:00 Tomer Cohen to...@gmx.net: 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.f...@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 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: geolocation in firefox
If you have access to a US server you can tunnel through it... Or paid/free VPN services... 2014-04-16 14:03 GMT+03:00 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com: I checked the languages settings in firefox. It has only english. The OS has english and hebrew. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:42 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.ilwrote: Don't forget the site has two ways of guessing where you're from/what language you want regardless of geolocation: 1. IP as mentioned by Tomer 2. Your browser sends a list of preferred languages to the webserver, generally the OS locale is the first on the list unless you change it, you can set/change the order in Edit Preferences Content Languages. 2014-04-16 0:15 GMT+03:00 Tomer Cohen to...@gmx.net: 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.f...@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 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: geolocation in firefox
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.f...@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 to...@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.f...@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 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
