Windows 10: Detecting computer's location in Edge and FF...

Beta prerelease software - works exactly as it says on the box it came in, not necessarily the way you want it to.

 

While that's true, the webservers know my IP address, only Edge does it. Using the same search engine, DDG with the same search term, Firefox does not display the forecast.io link with GPS location. The location sharing is disabled in Firefox.

In another word Edge, or on a wider view, Microsoft changes the DDG search results on the "fly", inserting the seemingly "organic" link as the first result of the search. And that's despite the fact that location services are disabled that evidently does not apply to Edge or Microsoft in general. It would be interesting to know how DDG would view hijacking its search result. Even more interesting, if hackers could use modifying the search result on the "fly" to insert their own URL as the first link to their malware, organic or not...

Now, now... Windows 10 RTM had been released on June 29, 2015. As such, it's no longer Beta version...

 

I posted that 4 days ago, when it was still beta and pre-release. Today is 01 August > release + 3 and counting, so I can't let you get away with that, despite the timezones *Wink

DDG is not in the same league with Google or Bing - whereas DDG does not use tracking info, I suppose, to give a "personalized and user oriented" search result, it also does not find things I might just be interested in, based on my historical searches. For me it is an inferior product.

I am not interested in advertising and marketing related searches. I use modified host files on my various OSs (Windows and Linux) to prevent web-pages from showing much of the rubbish that gets in the way of enjoyment of searching the web for information. It has no bearing on most of the fora, such as this one, that I subscribe to since membership has the reward of repressing what a guest would see if they dropped in here.

Simply put, Windows 10 is an Operating system that relies on knowing your location, where you are accessing it from, now. Otherwise Cortana can't remind you, when you get to the dentist, that you need to make an appointment for your mother to get a checkup.

It is not a desktop only operating system any more.

If you don't wish your OS to do that, you may be happier to stick with an earlier version, perhaps?

 

Actually, the Windows 10 RTM had been released about two weeks ego, so, both of us are wrong... *Biggrin*Biggrin

The point was that Edge or Windows system changed DDG search result, while Firefox does not on the same PC. I fail to see what relevence the subjective quality of the search engine has to do with this... *really

Get it right, Windows 10 runs in the cloud and doesn't have much to do with the desktop, other than providing the source of the data being collected. And of course I will stick with my Windows Vista, 7 and 8.x until I can.

 

No, you are wrong. DDG displays the tracking info regardless of browser. Look again at the URL for both of them, they point to different URL's. Copy and paste the URL from Edge into FF, you will see the same results.

 

Lets say your IP comes with an 'basic' location (mostly the ISP's street-address).
this location is pretty close to some end users already (let say 25Miles away)..
but, when u use google maps and stuff (let say on ur phone, so your phone knows ur last location)
when u use ur wifi at home, google adds that location and IP to a data base.

now the explaining why the links differ;
IE not yet knowing the exact address of the IP, will come with that 'basic' location...
but chrome (tied to google) knows the exact location (<2 miles)...

ofc the different systems share (or steal) the info, but that does not mean they trust each-others info.
or maybe the info was not shared yet at all

hope that explained the difference between the links