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Note that 'share my location' (or not) is already being perfectly fine handled by the browser.
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
Note that 'share my location' (or not) is already being perfectly fine handled by the browser.
- dheera 6y agoOn a side note I was once able to get a very precise location even with permissions turned off, simply by virtue of 2 devices being on the same Wi-Fi network, the other device having given permissions. For one they both appear to the outside as the same IPv4 address, and Wi-Fi doesn't travel that far so you can usually presume they are at the same location. There are other ways like having one device hog bandwidth in a slowly modulated fashion, and have the other device pick up on that modulation in streamed data. This isn't related to the parent comments and I highly doubt any major apps actually implement this but just pointing out that such a side channel attack is possible.