> First thing it did was ask me if it could use my location. I said no. It then took me to a map centered on my current location! I don’t really care and only said no because I was prompted and default to better safe than sorry answers, but being asked and then ignored rubbed me the wrong way.

It’s not using your location directly; it’s going to fall back to using the location tied to your IP since you denied it access to GPS/wifi data from your phone. Every single website you visit can get that location, no permissions required. If you don’t like that, you should already be using a VPN.