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I'm a bit confused about how it actually works, and somehow they decided to not include a demonstration video. If clicking on it does trigger a location permis
by crote 10mo ago
I'm a bit confused about how it actually works, and somehow they decided to not include a demonstration video.
If clicking on it does trigger a location permission prompt: what's the point? The "issues" with prompts getting denied can already be solved by web developers doing this themselves, rather than just blindly firing off a request on page load.
If clicking on it does not trigger a location permission prompt: have we forgotten about the Line Of Death [0]? Clicking random website-styled elements should never result in dangerous actions being taken - and leaking the user's physical location is definitely dangerous. Sure, they are trying to restrict the styling, but that's a fools' errant: somebody will just make a browser game where the button looks to refer to something ingame, but actually leak your real-world location.
Besides, who's actually asking for this? Location is perhaps useful for Google Maps-like websites to save you a few seconds of scrolling, but in practice it has mostly been spammy websites trying to get me to "subscribe to local news". Making geolocation easier is the last thing I want in my browser!
[0]: https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/ https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/
- rawling 10mo ago> The "issues" with prompts getting denied can already be solved by web developers doing this themselves Does that mean identifying the browser and trying to tell the user how to go into the browser settings and un-block permission prompts?
- crote 10mo agoNo, I mean adding a "use your location" button yourself which the user has to click before it uses the geolocation API, rather than just blindly requesting it on page load. The only reason people block it in settings is because they get sick of nagging prompts they never asked for.
- rawling 10mo agoAh, gotcha. So this change is giving developers a more standardised way to follow that "add a button, pop up permission dialog" pattern that will hopefully drive more of them away from the bad pattern?
- jeroenhd 10mo agoYou get prompted to supply your location just like normal. Using geolocation on the web is not something I do daily, but I do use it every now and then. The "locate stores near me" button for looking up store closing times is a lot easier than manually panning across a map. I find Chrome's current implementation (on Android) to be acceptable as long as measures are taken to prevent clickjacking and such to automate repeating prompts after denying permissions. I expect other browsers like Firefox to be more conservative in showing popups like that.
- IshKebab 10mo agoPresumably at some point they'll turn off script-triggered location access or make it less undesirable for sites in some way.
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