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pretty much all search engines do this to provide location based results, nobody stops you from Denying such request, but it seems quite stupid to pick up on on

pretty much all search engines do this to provide location based results, nobody stops you from Denying such request, but it seems quite stupid to pick up on one service when many other services do the same thing edit: my bad, seems major search engines don't ask for location, but I remember seeing this request way too often on many sites to consider it something unusual to complain about specifically at this site

Hitton 5y ago
Neither Google, Bing, DDG or Yandex does it. They probably get rough location from GeoIP. If you use private browsing, this is extremely annoying, every session you have to click "block".
- kazinator 5y ago
  > If you use private browsing, this is extremely annoying, every session you have to click "block". I just verified that if, in Firefox, you checkbox "[x] Block new requests asking to access your location" in the location settings, then a private window inherit this; and the popup no longer appears. For some reason, the per-site blocking is not inherited by the private windows. Maybe it's considered an unacceptable info leak or something. Or possibly it might be this: the individual per-site location setting can be positive or negative (accept or deny). If the settings as such were inherited by a private window, that would be bad because if any accepts are present, they conflict with the concept of a private window. Maybe if the private windows just inherited the deny entries, that would be reasonable; could be nobody has bothered coding that up, thinking that users who are bothered about location can just use the global switch.