[trapexit]

Geolocation databases are frequently inaccurate, even at the country level of granularity!

I use a ISP in the Netherlands that was founded only recently, I and frequently encounter sites that think I'm in Dubai, which is apparently where the previous owner of my IP block was located.

Fortunately, the only problems this seems to cause for the moment are that I occasionally get geo-blocked by some sites' overly-aggressive firewall rules, and I get Twitter ads in Arabic.

But I shudder to think what might happen should the UAE find itself under sanction.