It seems I can no longer easily hide my country’s location anymore…
Context: These screenshots were taken in Ro-Ghoul. There’s a recent update which allowed players to view everyone’s ping. When you hovered your cursor over a player’s ping, it displays their country.
In every game before that I’ve played that directly/explicitly shows a player’s country on Roblox, it always had the option to hide it.
I censored every username just because I feel like it’s a safe thing to do. For 1 username (darker blue censored), that’s the guy I hovered my cursor over to see their country. For the 2nd image with the blue censor on my ping, that’s when I showed my country.
I could get a VPN, but that gives me more ping. I don’t know if it’s worth it to trade good ping for some location privacy. That’s actually the main reason in the first place I had to be fine with revealing my general location.
I understand your concern about privacy, but uhhhh, country of all things? That narrows down from an entire planet of Earth (since iirc, no other person is known for using the internet outside of the planet of Earth, maybe ISS but not Mars for sure) to maybe a nation or two, unless you’re on such a tiny obscure country, you’re probably fine.
Regardless, you’re probably more exposed when visiting ANY website or random Minecraft server because of how IP addresses works. I mean, how else would they dish you data when your computer requests it? And I’m pretty sure IP addresses can narrow your location down to maybe nearby province or region. Yeah, either use VPN or just acknowledge that you’re already exposed.
If you’re talking about normal people seeing your location, or at least an approximation.. Yeah, I can understand why, so don’t touch any game that publicly shows that user’s country :3
Me when I narrow down someone’s location from anywhere on the Earth to a bare minimum of hundreds of kilometers to upwards of thousands and a bare absolute minimum of tens of thousands to millions of people
(this doesn’t do shit besides tell me their timezone [sometimes] and culture)
if it’s actually enough to narrow you down that badly then that’s a skill issue that isn’t a problem caused by a country reveal but by your own actions.
isn’t it weird how the politicians own everything and i’m never gonna be able to buy a house or even make money that won’t be spent immediately on taxes or food or rent
and like half the world still thinks hard work will get you anywhere
