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> So ad-supported sites have to choose between greatly reduced ad revenue or a broken app. Thanks Google. Geolocation API is pretty powerful. It's one thing fo
by Brakenshire 11y ago
> So ad-supported sites have to choose between greatly reduced ad revenue or a broken app. Thanks Google.
Geolocation API is pretty powerful. It's one thing for a random website to know approximate location, but to be able to track location within 10m is something else.
- ry_ry 11y agoPerhaps a gentler interim solution would have been to only allow accuracy to town/city level over http.
- poooogles 11y agoThat's already mostly possible with geoip lookups.
- ry_ry 11y agoYeah, it's just the breaking changes thing - I like what Google are doing, and it's been alerted in the console for ages, but they're strong-arming it slightly. I'm weird, but it always grates slightly when companies throw their weight around - even if the endgame is a positive outcome. Plus the cynic in me assumes they have an advertising product in the works and this is facilitating it.