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i think this would be true of basically any large service that had multiple data centers. whichever one catches your data is the one closest to you.
the difficulty is accessing that data even if you can't read it you still have the closest location.
sounds to me like the Internet working as intended. if you want true privacy you need to take extra steps
Not even guaranteed to be the closest data center. It’s not completely out of the ordinary for there to be a faster route available to a data center farther away.
true, true