{"id":3859,"date":"2012-06-17T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2012-06-17T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T18:45:14","slug":"hate-localisation-hate-ip-based-geolocation-hate-hate-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/06\/17\/hate-localisation-hate-ip-based-geolocation-hate-hate-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate localisation. Hate IP based geolocation. Hate Hate Hate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nGoogle has long been localising its various websites and services, which I find incredibly annoying: if I want to read Dutch news I&#8217;ll ask for and I don&#8217;t want my search results tailored to where I am. Now as you know, Google bought Blogger a while back and has now localised blogspot as well and now every time I want to <a href=\"http:\/\/alicublog.blogspot.com\/\">Alicublog<\/a>, I&#8217;m directed to http:\/\/alicublog.blogspot.nl\/ rather than http:\/\/alicublog.blogspot.com\/. Suspicious minds have said that Google has introduced this to be able to selectively close down access to controversial\/&#8221;illegal&#8221; blogs while keeping this censorship invisible outside the target country. For the moment it certainly doesn&#8217;t possible, other than using a VPN connection to the US or by masking my IP address in some other way, to get round this autoswitching.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd that has fucked up the commenting systems of quite a few blogs I follow, as the Echo system they depend on is not smart enough to understand foo.blogspot.com is the same as foo.blogspot.nl. So I can&#8217;t read the comments at Alicublog, I can post comments at the *.nl version, but nobody will every read them&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFuckers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has long been localising its various websites and services, which I find incredibly annoying: if I want to read Dutch news I&#8217;ll ask for and I don&#8217;t want my search results tailored to where I am. Now as you know, Google bought Blogger a while back and has now localised blogspot as well and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}