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Re:Low Earth Orbit Visualization by Thorrez on Saturday October 15, 2022 @02:27AM (#33212287)
When you enable location, Chrome will send some pieces of information about your computer to Google Location Services to get your GPS location. Then Chrome sends that GPS location to the site you're visiting. Using information from your profile wouldn't be accurate if you were e.g. at a coffee shop.

>The information that Chrome sends to Google Location Services may include:

>The Wi-Fi routers closest to you

>Cell IDs of the cell towers closest to you

>The strength of your Wi-Fi or cell signal

>The IP address that is currently assigned to your device

https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/

Disclosure: I work at Google but not on anything related to this.

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Re:Low Earth Orbit Visualization by justshowpost on Saturday October 15, 2022 @05:16AM (#33213173)
This sounds like I work for Schutzstaffel but just doing paperwork for them
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Re:Low Earth Orbit Visualization by Thorrez on Sunday October 16, 2022 @10:08PM (#33229165)
I put the "not on anything related to this" part in to clarify that although I'm speaking about Google and work at Google, I'm not really a firsthand source, I'm just providing thirdhand information.
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