Timeline for How does Google Maps know where I am, when I'm using a VPN?
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| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:08 | answer | added | Ajedi32 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 18:08 | comment | added | Brain2000 | @user15571 Google cannot obtain the MAC of your router, because that is a layer 2 address, not a layer 3 address. Something else changed your location on google maps. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 6:11 | answer | added | mirimir | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 2, 2013 at 11:49 | comment | added | Giggi M Gallerano | Also if you are on IPv6 most likely the VPN service will not cover all your traffics. It happened to me with ipvanish. Google stopped to see my real location only when I turned off IPv6 on my browser. Read also: blog.dave.io/2011/06/vpn-ipv6-privacy | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 7:47 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 16, 2013 at 3:05 | answer | added | Rod MacPherson | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 3, 2013 at 13:12 | answer | added | dotancohen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 9:37 | comment | added | user15571 | change your router.. google obtained the mac of your router, when making google maps. I changed my router after it died, and I no longer appear. | |
| Jun 21, 2012 at 16:53 | vote | accept | user10732 | ||
| Jun 21, 2012 at 7:53 | answer | added | Hendrik Brummermann | timeline score: 44 | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 10:21 | answer | added | Mark Davidson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 8:45 | answer | added | Franko | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 22:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSecurity/status/215211111530758144 | ||
| Jun 19, 2012 at 21:17 | comment | added | Fiasco Labs | Because it's picking up your local VPN endpoint somehow. | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 21:08 | history | edited | Iszi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2012 at 20:51 | answer | added | rook | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 20:48 | answer | added | James Gibbons | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 20:27 | comment | added | Iszi | I'd guess it's got something to do with cookies and/or personalization. | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 20:22 | history | asked | user10732 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |