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Originally Posted by BJ
It prompts you to do that
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Nope it doesn't. The request with your location coordinates is sent to Google BEFORE you get prompted. Here is how it works. First of all, the browser receives your coordinates from near wifi routers. After that it sends the coordinates along with your IP to Google to receive your address.
When some application, say maps.google.com, asks you to allow your location info to be transferred, the browser ALREADY know your address because it already got it from Google (via
https://www.google.com/loc/json), so it's not hard to guess that Google already knows it to
There is an easy way on how to get rid of it in FF and even fake your location (I can make maps.google.com to detect my location as White House
) but you can't do it with Chrome
