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Oh I seeee, firefox has stuff built in.

Mine gave...The United Kingdom. I feel this is a bit poor, I mean admittedly there's no wifi on this computer but its hostname IS .manchester.ac.uk, which might have been a clue.

POOR.

Is it perhaps because Dimblebot is hiding with you? I was under the impression that he blocked all attempts to track his location automatically.

Ain't no dimblebot here, sonny.

Perhaps Dimblebot was in the Manchester Dimbletube at the time interfereing with your internets. IIRC there is an issue with Dimblebot and ONdigital boxes.

Mine is also virtually outside, I presume it takes it from the particular Virgin cabinet.

However also there is the whole streetview taking wifi readings, so it might be triangulating with the strength of wiki networks in your vicinity. However I fail to see how that could work in the long term taking into account that the only consistent two in my building has been a cafe downstairs and my own with the other 8 changing at least once a year.

EDIT: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/geolocation/ seems to confirm this ("Under the Hood" heading) suggesting its doen via wifi tracking when GPS isn't available.

I heard that dimblebot couldn't have a DimbleTube in Manchester because of all the cold war tunnels

Sput wrote:I heard that dimblebot couldn't have a DimbleTube in Manchester because of all the cold war tunnels

That was an ITV conspiracy.

Facebook also seem to have stepped up their local advertising, every singe one on there in the past few weeks has been for something within about 5 miles of my house.