Site asked for location

[TomS]

In Chrome.

This is the first time it has asked.

 

[sferrin]

Lie

 

[TomS]

Lie

Not like that. It kicked out a prompt that read "secretprojects.co.uk wants to know your location." I blocked the request but it's an unusual prompt to get from this site so I thought I'd say something.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

I've never seen that. It's never asked me for my location. Were you doing anything in particular at the time?

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

I've checked with the documentation, there's no function in Xenforo that should ask for HTML5 location.

Anyone else seen this?

 

[shedofdread]

No, never.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Some sort of boneheaded population tracking application in development, authorised or otherwise? Or just a malware exploit?

 

[TomS]

I've never seen that. It's never asked me for my location. Were you doing anything in particular at the time?

Just browsing. I'd had the site closed for a while, then opened it and got that dialog. If it happens again I'll try to document it better.

 

[Hobbes]

I haven't seen this.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

It goes without saying I have zero interest in asking people for their location.

 

[TomS]

It goes without saying I have zero interest in asking people for their location.

I assumed so. Usually that prompt is associated with site advertising (not a factor here) or search tools. Anyway, not a huge problem but I wanted to say something just in case. If it happens again I'll let you know.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

It goes without saying I have zero interest in asking people for their location.

I assumed so. Usually that prompt is associated with site advertising (not a factor here) or search tools. Anyway, not a huge problem but I wanted to say something just in case. If it happens again I'll let you know.

Yes - I think I turned on something in Google Analytics at one point which started much more intrusive stuff. I turned it off again.

 

[TomS]

A quick stroll through the Google documentation reveals that they don’t explicitly say that requests for user location are enabled by default, but they do have a discussion about how to do it responsibly.

It is possible to disable at the browser end, but I find it useful for certain sites. I'd never allow it automatically though.