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Old 13th Dec 2018, 10:53
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FullOppositeRudder
 
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It may be 'the system' trying to be helpful by suggesting what it thinks your location is. I discover that my computer here does this quite often - or rather suggests that it can share 'my location' - where the page I've loaded thinks it would be a good idea if it had that information (mostly when browsing for stuff which is available in several locations in a multiple branch store chain). The trouble is that where it thinks I am rarely coincides with my actual location - which is fixed for probably 95% of my online excursions. I've seen just occasionally where it bases that imagined location on my TCPIP address, which is invariably a wrong assumption.

Have you been hacked? I'm not an authority in these issues; my answer would be that I don't think so, but it always pays to be cautious when something unusual like this shows up.
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