it won't show you if you don't put in "location"
Why is it STILL possible for people to find us on the interactive map???
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Jun 18, 2010
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Gambitbuster wrote:
Why afraid if someone find our location? I never cared.
Then why are you flagged under 'international'?
Gambitbuster wrote:
bjazz wrote:
Gambitbuster wrote:
Why afraid if someone find our location? I never cared.
Then why are you flagged under 'international'?
Because i am a philosopher and have risen above the casts, religions and nations.
* Smirk *
Jun 18, 2010
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#5
PrawnEatsPrawn wrote:
Gambitbuster wrote:
bjazz wrote:
Gambitbuster wrote:
Why afraid if someone find our location? I never cared.
Then why are you flagged under 'international'?
Because i am a philosopher and have risen above the casts, religions and nations.
* Smirk *
lol
Jun 18, 2010
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#6
It's funny how people with weird ideas always think they've risen above others rather than sunk below them.
Jun 18, 2010
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#7
Cystem_Phailure wrote:
It's funny how people with weird ideas always think they've risen above others rather than sunk below them.
it's a fine line.
Jun 18, 2010
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#8
Gambitbuster wrote:
Actually all humans are weird, drawing lines all along the earth. Even they have created lines on the moon, despite there is no water and air.I do not believe in these lines just like birds and bees. And you can not say me weird and smirk because i am not trying to make you believe in these.Some flags international because they want to hide their identity and some think in the way like me.
i have no idea what the heck you are talking about.
"drawing lines all along the earth" - roads/tracks/etc. i guess? because you also compare it to the moon so i'm assuming you're not talking about theoretical lines (as in what i was referring to).
"I do not believe in these lines just like birds and bees." - you don't believe in birds and bees? what the heck stung me last week then? and what the heck crapped on my car this morning?
trigs wrote:
Gambitbuster wrote:
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"I do not believe in these lines just like birds and bees." - you don't believe in birds and bees? what the heck stung me last week then? and what the heck crapped on my car this morning?
What stung you? A hornet, a wasp, that drop in your pay...
What crapped on your car? A bee, your dog, a metaphsical ninja come to destroy us all...
</sarcasm>
Jun 18, 2010
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#10
Schachgeek wrote:
AfafBouardi wrote:
I've had an email from a member I invited to this site asking me why people are able to tell her where she lives when she has made no indication about it whatsoever.
Why is this feature still telling others where we live?
Afaf are you talking about the google map by ip address? It doesn't show your physical location, only the location of your internet service provider. From that it may be possible for a highly motivated stalker to extrapolate and find you, but it's not like someone can just go click, click, click and find out where your house is.
i know where you live. hide your children.
Hmmmmm.....
Schachgeek wrote:
AfafBouardi wrote:
I've had an email from a member I invited to this site asking me why people are able to tell her where she lives when she has made no indication about it whatsoever.
Why is this feature still telling others where we live?
Afaf are you talking about the google map by ip address? It doesn't show your physical location, only the location of your internet service provider. From that it may be possible for a highly motivated stalker to extrapolate and find you, but it's not like someone can just go click, click, click and find out where your house is.
This completely misses the point -- it should be entirely up to the user what information about them, however generic, is made public.
I'd suggest it should be an opt-in feature at a minimum. Also, there should be no way for you to find out my IP address simply by interacting with me here -- I'm pretty sure that all messaging, including during game-play is already routed through chess.com' servers so my IP should be 100% obcured from the other users here, and rightly so.
I can't speak for Meebo though -- is it a peer-to-peer or server hosted service? In either case I have it disabled.
Jun 18, 2010
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#14
The trick was that when they leave the location section blank, or enter a location that google maps can't find, the system automatically shows the location of the ISP. So users need to put in a random location (like "international" or something) that does bring results from google maps search.
I thought this problem was solved altogether.
philidor_position wrote:
The trick was that when they leave the location section blank, or enter a location that google maps can't find, the system automatically shows the location of the ISP. So users need to put in a random location (like "international" or something) that does bring results from google maps search.
I thought this problem was solved altogether.
I think Afaf has a point. You are international but located at/near Sunderland UK according to the map.
Jun 18, 2010
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Phobetrix wrote:
philidor_position wrote:
The trick was that when they leave the location section blank, or enter a location that google maps can't find, the system automatically shows the location of the ISP. So users need to put in a random location (like "international" or something) that does bring results from google maps search.
I thought this problem was solved altogether.
I think Afaf has a point. You are international but located at/near Sunderland UK according to the map.
I completely agree with Afaf and theGrobe about this. The location near Sunderland UK is what Google Maps search brings when you enter "international". It's an outcome of the "manual" solution I've explained above to this privacy problem.
Haha, Sunderland is international?!
Jun 18, 2010
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#18
theoreticalboy wrote:
Haha, Sunderland is international?!
That's what google thinks 
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Gambitbuster wrote:
bjazz wrote:
Gambitbuster wrote:
Why afraid if someone find our location? I never cared.
Then why are you flagged under 'international'?
Because i am a philosopher and have risen above the casts, religions and nations.
What's it like up there?
Schachgeek wrote:
Hey I have a Karen Silkwood problem and an ex wife who wants me dead. I don't bother trying to obfuscate my ip.
Anonymity on the interet is an illusion. There are steps you can take to try and hide, but many of those "anonymous" proxy servers and mail servers? Governments have back door access 24/7. Even the TOR network.
If somebody wants you bad enough, you're toast.
If someone literally wants you dead, I would not put the fact that you live in Boring, Oregon on your profile. I have been to Boring, and you are narrowing it down to what- five, six houses? I think they could just do process of elimination if they really wanted to cap you.
I've had an email from a member I invited to this site asking me why people are able to tell her where she lives when she has made no indication about it whatsoever.
Why is this feature still telling others where we live?