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croteyesterday at 10:30 AM1 replyview on HN

No, 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.


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rawlingyesterday at 10:51 AM

Ah, 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?