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Old 11-18-2004, 10:50 PM  
OzMan
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Originally posted by Esbee
It's pretty cool. Is it going to freak people out though? Joe Surfer doesn't know shit about his IP address and ARIN blocks - just that some porn site suddenly knows where he lives. Is he gonna end up with some big-brother phobia?

Guess conversions will answer that pretty soon though.
After hearing several negative reports like this of surfer paranoia I stopped using GeoIP stuff a while back but maybe things have changed so I will give it another shot.

Personally when I see a banner that has been geo targetted to me I feel like it is an invasion of privacy rather than a convenience of offering me "local" content or services but hopefully most surfers don't agree.
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