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enne ([personal profile] picklish) wrote in [personal profile] feuervogel 2011-06-11 03:32 am (UTC)

I have a hard time feeling bothered by this. There are plenty of things that LJ has done that are super problematic, but this isn't one of them.

The only information they have is your IP address, so it can't be "more accurate than a reverse IP site." The only result from that post's test is that it's more accurate than IPLocator. Maybe LJ is using a different reverse IP site.

If somebody had IP logging on and wanted to be malicious, the information is already there. They could even use a browser extension to provide the exact same immediate on-page information that LJ had planned to.

Besides, if somebody wanted to use that information maliciously, doing an IP to location lookup wouldn't even be a bump in the road.

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