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4 points by zhoujianfu 1 year ago | 8 comments

Just a little concept I had for a while and I decided to whip it up in the last two nights (exclusively using Claude Code). Give it a try please and let me know any feedback! Also please share to 100,000 of your closest friends.

Thanks!

codingdave 1 year ago |

I live in a rural area, so was surprised to see that there was already a marker where I live. And even more surprised to see that it indicated it was me.

Am I interpreting that correctly that there is no opt-in to having our location mapped when we hit the page? Just loading it publishes our location? Because if so, this is sketchy. Even anonymized, and even if my location is off by 7 miles from where I really am sitting, that is not far off for rural USA. This feels like a bit of a privacy violation.

JohnFen 1 year ago | |

> Am I interpreting that correctly that there is no opt-in to having our location mapped when we hit the page? Just loading it publishes our location?

Ouch! Thanks for the warning.

zhoujianfu 1 year ago | |

Ah, thanks for the feedback… I’n just using a geo IP lookup by peoples IP for the first “very rough” location, but I hadn’t considered that even a 7 mile radius can not be very anonymous in rural areas! Hmm.. is there a larger radius you feel you’d be comfortable with? Like 50 miles?

codingdave 1 year ago | | |

Yeah, I believe that I'd be comfortable with 20 - that would encompass half a dozen small towns instead of just one, and at that range I know half a dozen tech folks in the area, so it feels less targeted.