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Windows location service persistently reports weird incorrect location
Since approximately March-April 2026 My Windows 11 Pro x64 started reporting strange and incorrect location information to applications that request it, primarily web browsers. I'm located in San Fra...
Same here. Now my location in jumping between my real location and a San Mateo, CA. It has been almost 1 month since I noticed that issue at my home.
I upgraded my DSL to AT&T fiber, All 3rd-party geolocation services I can find show the correct location of my IP (IPV4 is static, IPV6 is dynamic at AT&T but all of IPs I record are in correct place). Windows Location API is the only one has issue, and it made all maps services running in browser broken because browser uses location API)