Geo-blocking
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geo-blocking-162-3943158
title:
Geo-blocking
text:
Geo-blocking, geoblocking or geolocking is technology that restricts access to Internet content based upon the user's geographical location. In a geo-blocking scheme, the user's location is determined using Internet geolocation techniques, such as checking the user's IP address against a blacklist or whitelist, GPS queries in the case of a mobile device, accounts, and measuring the end-to-end delay of a network connection to estimate the physical location of the user. The result of this check is
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Internet censorship based upon geographical location
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-blocking
date created:
2014-09-10T17:44:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T05:49:38Z
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