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Chrome for Android now lets you keep your exact location to yourself
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Chrome for Android now lets you keep your exact location to yourself

Phandroid·Tyler Lee·27 days ago
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Every time a website asked for your location on Chrome for Android, it was a binary call: hand over your exact GPS coordinates, or share nothing at all. That’s changing. Google just officially rolled out approximate location sharing , giving Chrome Android location sharing a third option that sits neatly between full access and none. When a site asks for your location now, you’ll see two choices in the permission prompt: Precise (your exact coordinates) and Approximate (your general neighborhood). Pick Approximate and the site gets a rough area, not a pin on your street. What This Actually Changes for Websites The distinction matters more than it sounds. Plenty of websites ask for location when they don’t actually need to know exactly where you are. Checking local weather, browsing nearby news, or pulling up regional store hours — none of that needs your GPS coordinates. With Chrome’s screen sharing privacy upgrade and now this, Google has been quietly tightening what websites can pull from your phone.…

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