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Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

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295 points AndrewDucker | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 20:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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miki123211 ◴[27 Aug 25 21:25 UTC] No.45045491[source]▶
Is there even such a thing as a "Mississippi IP?"

I.E. Are US ISPs, particularly big ones like Comcast, required to geolocate ISPs to the state where the person is actually in? What about mobile ones?

Where I live (not US), it is extremely common to get an IP that Maxmind geolocates to a region far from where you actually live.

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1. burnt-resistor ◴[28 Aug 25 11:07 UTC] No.45050727[source]▶
Required? Not sure, but probably not, but they do so to monetize your metadata and provide hints to websites so they show language- and country-localized "local" versions of websites before/instead-of/as-a-fallback-to requesting location permissions.