Grey Box with my City in it

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16 May 2011, 9:42 pm

For some reason sometimes when I am on this site, I see a grey banner at the top of the screen with one word on it, the city I live in. The word is clickable but I'm far too suspicious to click it. I am using Chrome and have AdBlock enabled.

What is this box? How does it know what city I live in? I don't think I like this.

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Dots
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16 May 2011, 9:44 pm

I just disabled adblock and instead of just a grey box with my city in it, it's a banner ad targeted to my city.

So that solves the "what is it" question, but I still wonder how it knows where I live, and I don't like that at all.

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16 May 2011, 10:58 pm

It knows where you live based on your IP address. Sounds like a Google targeted advert.

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17 May 2011, 11:09 pm

Google isn't evil, they just want to own everything in your life but they ain't evil, no sir.

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