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Ask HN: Hacker News is asking for your location. Why?
I just checked HN on my phone. I was surprised to have to block a location request to my browser. What's going on here?
- mrspeaker 6y agoThere's only one JS file loaded from the HN main page - and it's 150 non-obfuscated lines long (nothing that would trigger location request, that's for sure!). Unless there is shenanigans, it sounds like something is getting injected into your web responses.
- cpach 6y agoI’ve never seen this on HN. Not on iOS, neither on macOS/Windows/Linux. So as you say it seems to be something going on the client end here.
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- dakiol 6y agoHas happened the same to me a couple of times.