713: GeoIP
| GeoIP |
 Title text: 'Meet hot young singles in your mom's basement today'? Man, screw you, GeoIP. |
Explanation
GeoIP is a service that converts IP addresses to their respective location on the earth. This is done by looking up the IP address in a database maintained by various Internet Service providers. Advertisers often take advantage of the Joneses effect by creating localized ads based on your location. These ads are often highly misleading since the images are often stock photographs with the nearest town superimposed on it.
This is the case with the comic. The International Space Station presumably has a public-facing IP address, which is geolocated to "Low Earth Orbit". Cueball trolls the advertisers by saying that there are "local girls" in the IIS. Since all members of the ISS know each other, Cueball underlines the flaw in GeoIP-based advertising.
The title text refers to how specific GeoIP can get. However, knowing that someone is in their mom's basement is hyperbole.
