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Interesting that they won’t infer a location from an IP or other information they have. Seems like they just want the location data and have an excuse to demand
by jwie 3y ago
Interesting that they won’t infer a location from an IP or other information they have. Seems like they just want the location data and have an excuse to demand it.
- gruez 3y ago>Seems like they just want the location data and have an excuse to demand it. 1. you don't need google maps script to request location 2. the site needs to ask the user before it can get their location. the average user doesn't even know whether google maps is involved or not, so it's totally irrelevant.
- reaperducer 3y agoInteresting that they won’t infer a location from an IP or other information they have. Right now, Google maps tells me I'm in suburban Atlanta. It's off by more than a thousand miles.
- xattt 3y agoSame here. I am in Charlottetown, but can get either that, Halifax or Montreal, which I assume are at different levels of the interconnect to the rest of the Internet. Occasionally, I will get French language automatically picked because of the assumption that I am “in” Montreal.
- TheCleric 3y agoSame, always has me in the Midwest despite not living near there.
- amf12 3y agoBecause Sites usually have an input box to enter the store address / zip code, otherwise you'd never be able to look up for another location. Probably the case here too