Mobile access location request while viewing site

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  yarnaholic · Member · Jul 7, 2014 at 6:53 pm

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  Hi all,

  I visited my site’s latest post on Chrome 35 for Android after getting a new smartphone (yay!), only to have a layover appear at the bottom of my phone’s screen which stated that “yarnaholic.wordpress.com wants to use your device’s location. Allow/Deny”

  For what possible reason would my site need visitors’ location info? Personally, I find this incredibly annoying.

  Thanks for any insight

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 7, 2014 at 6:54 pm

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  Hi there,
  I see that you tagged the thread for Staff. Good going. :)

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  yarnaholic · Member · Jul 7, 2014 at 7:13 pm

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  hi tt – just a small refresher. jj “-)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 7, 2014 at 7:19 pm

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  I knew it was you. :) Interestingly enough, I’m also a knitter, though answering support questions has meant I no longer knit as much as I used to.

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  yarnaholic · Member · Jul 7, 2014 at 7:36 pm

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  Of course. ;)

  I recently realigned my priorities. Still not nearly enough time for knitting.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 7, 2014 at 7:40 pm

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  I will be realigning my priorities also in the near future.This afternoon I get yet another scan. SIGH …

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jul 9, 2014 at 12:06 pm

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  We’ve had a couple other reports of that message, and I’ve asked our team to look into why that’s popping up. I’ll let you know when I have more information about that. :)

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jul 11, 2014 at 9:43 am

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  Alrighty, this should be fixed! If you see that location request again, please let me know. :) Thanks for reporting it!