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Asante
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Location: The Netherlands *german flag*
#26937370 - 09/15/20 03:27 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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This changed a day or so ago.
A bug or did someone play a clever trick?
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Ythan
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Re: Location: The Netherlands *german flag* [Re: Asante] 2
#26938028 - 09/15/20 09:02 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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You appear to be using a proxy server in Germany (NordVPN?). You can put whatever text you want in the "Location" field, but the flag uses your IP address for geolocation.
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Asante
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Re: Location: The Netherlands *german flag* [Re: Ythan]
#26938868 - 09/16/20 11:39 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm actually using one in the Netherlands to the best of my knowledge
Edit:
I switched to a Spanish one and it still shows Germany!
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Re: Location: The Netherlands *german flag* [Re: Asante]
#26938910 - 09/16/20 12:05 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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It'll show you the flag for the location (it thought) you were in when you made the post. So it's stamped, if you like, rather than dynamic.
Your most recent post shows the Spanish flag.
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Asante
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Re: Location: The Netherlands *german flag* [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26938937 - 09/16/20 12:33 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Actually it shows the italian flag. It seems my network garbles
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Re: Location: The Netherlands *german flag* [Re: Asante]
#26938978 - 09/16/20 12:52 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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LOL good point. I clearly don't know my flags of the world well enough.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Re: Location: The Netherlands *german flag* [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26939283 - 09/16/20 03:20 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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np, if you hover over the flag you get a nationality reveal, another Ythan special.
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Re: Location: The Netherlands *german flag* [Re: Asante]
#26939292 - 09/16/20 03:24 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Okay I tracked this down. We had to update our IP geolocation library. Apparently the database we were using stopped being updated in 2018. I believe there should be more accurate location results now. Thank you for catching that! I never would have noticed.
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Asante
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Re: Location: The Netherlands *german flag* [Re: Ythan]
#26939679 - 09/16/20 07:13 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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You're welcome! I recently decided to just share my location and suddenly one day my dutchie flag changed to the german one. I wondered, maybe someone was toying around a bit.
Thanks for trackig it down and taking care of it, for all us foreigners not in area code 1
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