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I just loaded this and the map was centered on my house before I gave access to my location. I'm using current Firefox. Anyone know how that would happen?



It uses geoIP data from Maxmind to approximately locate users even before they provide location information. It's not usually _that_ accurate though. It's just intended to get a user to the rough location that they're based in.




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