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I don't see any feedback on what my current location is. I know my home ISP assigns me an IP address that location services place a 100km away from me — users have no way of verifying if their location was picked up correctly.

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Thanks for this suggestion, will consider adding this. BTW, We don't use location from ISP, we get location form GPS. So it will be more accurate than getting from ISP.

I don't think my laptop provides you with coordinates based on GPS.

Indirectly, it can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system

(At least Chrome and Firefox can use this system; I'm no sure about the other browsers)

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