Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by jeroenhd on Saturday September 11, 2021 @08:03AM
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I don't have an iPhone, can you expand on that location services part? Does Safari not show the permission popup when a website asks for it or something?
On Android, websites can request location permissions, you can't access any of that stuff by default.
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by beefield on Saturday September 11, 2021 @09:31AM
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I do not have iphone either, but based on my observations many (most?) iphone owners have disabled safari location services from the os side, so you can't just allow them from the permission popup, but you need to go to the os settings and enable them for safari before you can bypass the permission popup. Again, I do not own an iphone, so not sure if it is exactly like this, but something like that needs to be done in many iohones trying to access location data from safari.
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by lotsofpulp on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:10AM
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I wish I could do that on macOS so I stop getting hit with pop ups in Safari asking me for my location. Homedepot.com is particularly annoying about this.
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by heavyset_go on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:10PM
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Use a browser that doesn't purposely nag you for permissions like Safari does. Firefox fits the bill for me, and doesn't throw nagging pop ups at me all of the time.
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by iaml on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:28AM
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You can go to safari preferences>websites>location and set "when visiting other sites" to "deny". I don't get any popups that way.
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by lotsofpulp on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:45PM
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Oh thanks!
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by beefield on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:43AM
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It does not stop the pop ups. Safari asks from you permission for location services, you tap ok, and you get an error message that says getting location services failed.
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by jonnycomputer on Saturday September 11, 2021 @08:38AM
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Not sure what op meant, but most computers don't come with built in GPS. Location services rely on other indicators of location, which are far less precise.
Re:Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
by kps on Saturday September 11, 2021 @09:45AM
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Firefox lets you specify your location, though not easily. (Set `geo.provider.network.url` to `data:application/json,{"location":{"lat":0.00000,"lng":0.00000},"accuracy":1000}`.) Chrome doesn't, so even sites with location permission place me at my ISP's HQ 500 miles away.
Not sure it is relevant anymore for a non-trivial chunk of people - at least in mobile. Lately I have quite often needed to explain about a good web app accessible in browser but not in app store. And I am a bit bewildered. The amount of people pretty much unable to distinguish between browser, app store and url is... not too small. (And don't get me started about iphone users' understanding why their location services "do not work" in safari. I assume there is a difference in default permissions there between iphone and abdroid there)