And even if you knew that, the only thing you could have known from the zip code is the city. At least roughly, because multiple small villages share one zip code.

Or, to cut it short: This doesn’t work at all on a general and global level, so I guess there’s a reason why websites do this differently…

(I'm asking because it's super annoying that some pseudo-smart people come up with an oh-so-clever approach of "look ma, I have detected AI slop" over and over again, when all they actually do is piss people off who write by hand.)

Maybe I can shed some light on this :-)

I mainly intended it as some friendly advice as to what information you better have prominently available on your web site for casual visitors to bother with researching you as an option.