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Austin Gil

  • Senior Developer Advocate, Akamai Technologies
  • Blogger and Contributor, Freelance
As seen in: Medium, The Startup, HackerNoon, freeCodeCamp, DEV Community, DZone, Anchor.fm, Craft of Code
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Dear Internet

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By Austin Gil
| austingil.com
How are you doing? Good? Good! There’s some things I think we should talk about. You know we go way back. From CDs in the mail with internet minutes, from AOL screen names and chatrooms asking ASL, from waiting literally five minutes for a single image to load one line at a time, from the ugliest forums where I could speak with experts on the most obscure subjects, and from web rings where one magical site led to another until hours had taken us down the most bizarre rabbit holes imaginable.
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The C̶a̶k̶e̶ User Location Is a Lie!!!

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By Austin Gil
| DZone
I recently sat in on a discussion about programming based on user location. Folks that are way smarter than me covered technical limitations, legal concerns, and privacy rights. It was nuanced, to say the least. So, I thought I’d share some details. Location, Location, Location There are several common examples when you may want to add location-based logic to your app: You want to set the language or currency of your app based on the region. You’re offering discounts to people in a given country.
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The C̶a̶k̶e̶ User Location is a Lie: Here's Why

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By Austin Gil
| HackerNoon
I recently sat in on a discussion about programming based on user location. Folks that are way smarter than me covered technical limitations, legal concerns, and privacy rights. It was nuanced, to say the least. So, I thought I’d share some details. Location, Location, Location There are several common examples when you may want to add location-based logic to your app: You want to set the language or currency of your app based on the region. You’re offering discounts to people in a given country.
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