Funny theme is with geolocation proxies. Well, or IP, which in my version is the same.
The main annoying question - I need a proxy% of the country% -% of the city% so that everyone sees it that way. Who's everyone? All at the same time it is not necessary to see it, because different services use different geo-bases, which, moreover, in Google-2i-Yandex can be pinched, making it easy to make a moshoid out of the Moscow grid.
Or even cooler, when they take a thread of geography, and then it begins - my god, by the lost geo.kom, sees it not as Germany, but as Romania! And whence this first hearing. Com takes info - it's not at all clear.
At the same time, the main way to get information by geo-service about data center ownership is information taken from RIPE records, i.e., business entities. In the course goes primarily the country code and the address of the organization-person. So, taking into account the fact that blocks of IP addresses are often registered to autonomous systems, which allows them to announce in any available data center; then today addresses can be hosted in Moscow, and tomorrow in Berlin. And the base will still give out the network location at the owner’s place of residence, say in Uryupinka.
Difference huzyov from real finding IP
Moreover, many hosters declare some kind of location without having data centers in it: a typical example is OVH which offers half of European countries, having only three data centers in France, so his order for IPs is Russian roulette , because with a probability of 80% they will be determined by most of the services as France.
Based on this sad fact, the geolocation of the IP address can be accurately judged only by traces to IP, or rather by intermediate ISP hosts to the data center, for the last hop router will most likely tell the provider and quite possibly the country. Most of companies use for their websites IP Geolocation API like https://ipwhois.io. This tool helps them to track users, who visit their website by geolocation through ip address.
Difference between IP address tracing and geo-service
Moreover, if a geo-service shows you the desired location, it is absolutely not a fact that the search engine or social network will see the geo IP in the same way, because they also have their own geo-bases, often defining a country as a god, per capita, or according to the old owners, or according to the users who came from under these addresses, t.ch Russian grids can easily be recognized as a thread by Uruguay or Holland, which happened to me in my practice with both Yandex and Google.
So, it does not make sense to drop the account of ALL geo-services, since whatismyip, ip2location or 2ip have often extremely rotten data. Of course, there are many more such sloops, but I'm talking about the most popular ones. At the same time, if you need actual data on the burgonet, then it is better to use MaxMind or Whoer for Runet. But here we must understand that services (for example, a frequent problem with the bookmaker office paddypower) will determine the geography as God will put them to their hearts.