The regional Internet matrix
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I am trying to sum up the dimensions of regional Internet
Regional = [ timezone | geo-region | language ]
which can be defined in
- browser settings, thus HTTP request headers
- browser components, like
toLocaleDateString(), toLocaleTimeString, tolocaleLowerCase(), tolocaleUpperCase(), toLocaleString()
in Javascript, and any browser specific or vendor specific scriptable interface. - cookie
- session
- Flash cookie (aka LocalSharedObject)
- URL (like
hl=zh_CN&
) - profile website and product specific profile. Example in Google profile your language is English(US) while your in Google Calendar settings you choose English(UK)
- target website ccTLD
- DNS settings
- third party data provision like oAuth or OpenID
- IP address and other lower-level or higher-level network identifiers, most maliciously, RTT combined with a accurate route table
- (to be added)
This is why making comparison and getting conclusions are hard to be scientific complete and correct.
To protect network neutrality, fuck all kinds of regional Internet.
Viva la Résistance!
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