When using some websites that ask for browser permission to use your location, the location is wrong.
I recently moved more than 2000 miles, and when I use Google Maps i… (ďalšie informácie)
When using some websites that ask for browser permission to use your location, the location is wrong.
I recently moved more than 2000 miles, and when I use Google Maps in Firefox on my Windows laptop, its "current location" (as in, the blue dot that appears once I give Google Maps permission to use my location) is always at my old address rather than my new one.
After some digging, I discovered https://mylocation.org/, which was very helpful in that it informed me of two different types of location lookup. One of them, based on my IP address, works like a charm and shows me at my new address. The other, called "Browser Geolocation", shows my old address. And I've confirmed that this information varies from browser to browser: Firefox is wrong, Chrome is correct, Edge is correct, Brave is wrong.
This must mean that the browser stores some kind of information somehow about my location, right? How do I update this so that it matches the public IP address location?