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tomcooks

I wish I could select my location instead of giving it to the website via tracking

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you can, just decline the permissions and it will try to estimate a location.

From there you can click "Change Address" and set whatever address you want.

On Firefox mobile nothing shows, I'll try from desktop later on thanks

You can -- block the location request and click on 'Open Street View' to enter an address

If you block the location request it then tracks you via your IP and stores it in local storage.

While typically such actions would annoy me, I would say it seems pretty reasonable in this case.

It seems like it's just doing it's just gracefully degrading from the precise location to imprecise. I do think I tracking free option would be good though.

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