Ask HN: News.Y Combinator.com wants to use your devices location

1. No, I've never gotten the prompt.

2. I don't think it needs it?

What phone do you have and what browser are you using?

Samsung galaxy 7, using chrome

I'm using Chrome on a GS7 right now and have never seen this. I keep Location Services off anyway. Version 73.0...

Answer to the first question - I mostly lurk and have not received this notification from Safari at this time.

However, I would like to know why this website (and many others) need my location data.

This website does not ask for your location, OP pretty clearly has malware on their phone. This site uses a measly 150 lines of JS and none of it involves location. Feel free to see for yourself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js

1. No

2. It doesn’t

You may have malware or this is a MITM scenario, perhaps an Internet cafe? Does the site show as secure?

You've got a virus.

Second time I've read this question on this site today.

What are you guys installing/who builds your ROMs?