Google knows where you are

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Android853sp, Mar 25, 2014.

  1. So it's 8:15 and we are just surfacing in the H1898 in Barcelona, the girlfriend is reading her book and I'm catching up on the news and posts on the forum and my eye is taken by an advert and bugger me, it's in Spanish. I go into set up and Google tells me almost to the room number where I am - no that is scary ! Andy
     
    #1 Android853sp, Mar 25, 2014
  2. Is this just your way of bragging that you're in Spain? :Angelic:
     
    #2 mattmccabebrown, Mar 25, 2014
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  3. well if only people on a plane had been using thee tablet would have found it ages ago lol ;)
     
    #3 johnboy, Mar 25, 2014
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  4. Amended for you
     
    #4 Carlos Fandango, Mar 25, 2014
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  5. No Matt because I have already had the piss ripped out of me when I originally posted that my girlfriend had bought the Cartagena trip for my birthday and I was going to take her to Barcelona. Be fair to me it was early in the morning after we had arrived and I wasn't thinking straight and thanks to the internet the flights cost me £30 for the 2 of us and the hotel offered 90% discount for a last minute booking, If I was going to go for the one upmanship I'd have mentioned the spa afternoon that we are about to enjoy :Smuggrin:. Andy
     
    #5 Android853sp, Mar 25, 2014
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  6. Very clever smart arse :Smuggrin: and I am truly empressed. Andy
     
    #6 Android853sp, Mar 25, 2014
  7. The local IP address your phone / laptop will be enough to tell the ad server that you're in a particular region of Spain.

    Also, Google and others use crowdsourcing to associate WiFi hotspots with GPS locations, which is how your phone and / or laptop knows where you are just by connecting to that hotspot.

    Easy really ;)
     
    #7 Snips, Mar 25, 2014
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  8. Yeh, so much for anonimity and privacy. I now see first hand why the European Commission want to rip the arse out of Google for the 1984 big brother stuff. Andy
     
    #8 Android853sp, Mar 25, 2014
  9. Not me, Google translate! :Cigar:
     
    #9 Carlos Fandango, Mar 25, 2014
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  10. got to ruin the mystique :Stop:
     
    #10 mattmccabebrown, Mar 26, 2014
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  11. That's funny, because when I log on it comes up with adverts for life like blow up dolls with real hair! How does it know that.....hey wait a minute....:Banghead:
     
    #11 nuttynick, Mar 26, 2014
  12. i might get one of dem things. i haven't got a clue where i am from one minute to the next.
     
    #12 finm, Mar 26, 2014
  13. The internet isn't private, never has been, never will be..
     
    #13 philoldsmobile, Mar 30, 2014

  14. Doesn't bother me, my life is so suburban and nondescript a knock on the door from MI5 would liven it up a bit
     
    #14 Carlos Fandango, Mar 30, 2014
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  15. My life is so suburban and nondescript a knock on the door from MFI would liven it up..
     
    #15 philoldsmobile, Mar 30, 2014
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  16. My life is so suburban and nondescript a knock on the door from Jehovah Witnesses would liven it up.
     
    #16 bootsam, Mar 30, 2014
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  17. my life is so suburban and nondescript a knock on the door from a troupe of traveling dwarf transvestites would liven it up.
     
    #17 idrinkbeer, Mar 30, 2014
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  18. sod of i aint going out at this time of night
     
    #18 johnboy, Mar 31, 2014
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