Ask HN: Hacker News is asking for your location. Why?

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I just checked HN on my phone. I was surprised to have to block a location request to my browser. What's going on here?

There's only one JS file loaded from the HN main page - and it's 150 non-obfuscated lines long (nothing that would trigger location request, that's for sure!).

Unless there is shenanigans, it sounds like something is getting injected into your web responses.

I’ve never seen this on HN. Not on iOS, neither on macOS/Windows/Linux.

So as you say it seems to be something going on the client end here.

Has happened the same to me a couple of times.

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