Read this, if you don't want to give your identity away on rollitup

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potpimp

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You could not.

The server sees an IP address, and that gives you a very rough approximation of the user's location. Say, a few hundred miles radius.

The only way the server gets your location is if the browser sends GPS info to the server on request, and that can be blocked. Usually the default setting is for the browser to at least ask.
You don't have to believe anything but I saw it many times myself.
 

OutdoorOpps

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Time to time show up someone on YT driving fast as a rocket and police catch them, is fairly usual, I see there a niche for an new social media for all those that want to be caught... any help to name the next last yell in social media?
 

ComputerSaysNo

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You don't have to believe anything but I saw it many times myself.
This is not about "belief". I know how IP-based geolocation works (and a few other things regarding IT, given my 30 years of experience in the field...).

You get assigned an IP address by your ISP, and that is what the server (i.e. the forum software) sees. It is not possible to deduce the location of the user from that, inside a very large area. The forum software shows you an estimate of the user's location based on the location of the ISP of the user. If the user goes through a VPN or even just a web proxy, it will show that location instead.

I have just queried my (IP-based) geolocation, and the result was ~120km (70 miles) away from my actual location (which might sound like next door to you but in Europe it's actually a fair distance). I'm not using a VPN or proxy.

So what you actually saw was not of very much value.

Of course it's possible to see the likely country of origin of the user that way, but that is not really helping law enforcement for example.
 

Offmymeds

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So if you’re paranoid don’t go on the internet
I thought the title only meant RIU
Most people who get hammered try hustling by stealing power
Small grows only get burned if the cops know the guy is hanging out in the local tavern soliciting sales
Every bartender hears things I guess you need to avoid bars and taverns too :roll:
My friendly dealer told me he has sold weed to every single person in my former bar hangout except for one, every regular, every employee except one and that one is married to one he did sell to.

IMO those statistics on the number of active users are WAY under the real number.

It's been about 5 years since I hungout in bars but things were changing 5 year ago. The cat & mouse games with po po are much softer. At one of my favorite bars there was a side door that opened to an alley. The biggest stoners would gather in groups of 2-5 for some quick hits. Po po would watch from a car in the shopping center parking lot about 80 yards away. They could have easily trapped several people at any time but chose to tell the bar owners to clean it up. Result - stoners walked 20 ft further around a corner for about a month before returning to the same routine. Problem solved.
 

LeastExpectedGrower

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My friendly dealer told me he has sold weed to every single person in my former bar hangout except for one, every regular, every employee except one and that one is married to one he did sell to.

IMO those statistics on the number of active users are WAY under the real number.

It's been about 5 years since I hungout in bars but things were changing 5 year ago. The cat & mouse games with po po are much softer. At one of my favorite bars there was a side door that opened to an alley. The biggest stoners would gather in groups of 2-5 for some quick hits. Po po would watch from a car in the shopping center parking lot about 80 yards away. They could have easily trapped several people at any time but chose to tell the bar owners to clean it up. Result - stoners walked 20 ft further around a corner for about a month before returning to the same routine. Problem solved.

It's like when I was a kid...we used to roll with a bottle of Jack Daniels in the car and on a weekend night when we couldn't find a party we'd just cruise and get loaded. The cops in town would stop us, confiscate the bottle and tell us to go home. Shit doesn't work like that anymore. Also, amazing that most of us are still alive.
 

C. Nesbitt

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It's like when I was a kid...we used to roll with a bottle of Jack Daniels in the car and on a weekend night when we couldn't find a party we'd just cruise and get loaded. The cops in town would stop us, confiscate the bottle and tell us to go home. Shit doesn't work like that anymore. Also, amazing that most of us are still alive.
Similar, although the police never pulled us over with a bottle in the car. Drinking and driving has slowly gone from a slap on the wrist to an infraction you can’t afford to get in the past 30 years. MADD was organized, targeted and very effective in getting that changed. I do see that the majority of young people today make use of Uber and are not very sympathetic when someone does get a DUI, so the attitude about it sure has changed along with the penalties.
Even the attitude around underage drinking has become less tolerant. In high school, most parents had a “boys will be boys” attitude about drinking, a couple of parents would buy us beer.
Probably both are good changes though, we did a lot of reckless shit with cars and alcohol back in the day. Not proud but it was kid of the norm at the time.
 

Boatguy

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Similar, although the police never pulled us over with a bottle in the car. Drinking and driving has slowly gone from a slap on the wrist to an infraction you can’t afford to get in the past 30 years. MADD was organized, targeted and very effective in getting that changed. I do see that the majority of young people today make use of Uber and are not very sympathetic when someone does get a DUI, so the attitude about it sure has changed along with the penalties.
Even the attitude around underage drinking has become less tolerant. In high school, most parents had a “boys will be boys” attitude about drinking, a couple of parents would buy us beer.
Probably both are good changes though, we did a lot of reckless shit with cars and alcohol back in the day. Not proud but it was kid of the norm at the time.
Melanie's Law as well. Sadly it doesnt stop a chronic drunk driver from continuing his/her nonsense even without a license.
 

natureboygrower

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Similar, although the police never pulled us over with a bottle in the car. Drinking and driving has slowly gone from a slap on the wrist to an infraction you can’t afford to get in the past 30 years. MADD was organized, targeted and very effective in getting that changed. I do see that the majority of young people today make use of Uber and are not very sympathetic when someone does get a DUI, so the attitude about it sure has changed along with the penalties.
Even the attitude around underage drinking has become less tolerant. In high school, most parents had a “boys will be boys” attitude about drinking, a couple of parents would buy us beer.
Probably both are good changes though, we did a lot of reckless shit with cars and alcohol back in the day. Not proud but it was kid of the norm at the time.
I'd guess benzos and opiates, pills in general have replaced a lot of the drinking parties like when I was younger. Way easier to swipe mom and dad's pills from the medicine cabinet to party with.
 

LeastExpectedGrower

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I'd guess benzos and opiates, pills in general have replaced a lot of the drinking parties like when I was younger. Way easier to swipe mom and dad's pills from the medicine cabinet to party with.
I remember people starting to get into the prescription pharm stuff in the 80's, but my social group was more into booze, weed, LSD, Mushrooms and Ecstacy that we were mail-ordering in from Texas where it was still legal at the time . That stuff was WAY better than the E that later fueled the rave scene. I never had any interest in the opiate scene because we all knew an older 'kid' or two who had died of overdose, etc. There was a pretty active coke scene but that was mostly for the private school kids who had money. We sort of inherited the attitudes & enforcement of the late 70's and that coasted for a decade. When I went to college there was literally no alcohol policy on campus. Which meant every night was like Animal House for my entire undergrad time...that was a fun decade.
 

xtsho

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I screwed up.

More fitting 1975

"And they hadn't seen a cop around all day what luck
They brought everything they needed
Bags and scales to weigh the stuff "

 
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