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Are you sick of the "Would like to use your current location" and Tapatalk popups?
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I think you're confused. You don't have to give "permission". They can't do something without asking you. I'm saying it's an intrusion period.
So, to be clear, what you want is to be able to tell all websites that you never want your location used?
I think the OP just wants to be able to select something in settings to NEVER allow websites to have access to location settings. At least that is how I am reading it? If so, I could see that as being useful, I suppose.
Ahh I see. Ya that would be useful. At one time Google.com was asking me constantly, its was very obnoxious.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but assuming your using Safari as your browser, under Privacy Settings -> Location Services, you can toggle it to OFF for Safari and then Safari won't give you the popup asking about whether your location can be used anymore.
Of course web sites won't be able to use your location if you do this, but it sounds like that's what you want. Apologies if I've misunderstood.
Not sure if it's the same for other browsers since I haven't used any others enough to know how they behave with regards to location requests.
Of course web sites won't be able to use your location if you do this, but it sounds like that's what you want. Apologies if I've misunderstood.
Not sure if it's the same for other browsers since I haven't used any others enough to know how they behave with regards to location requests.
I agree. I wish there was an option to turn it off after x amount of times. Every single time I go to yahoo it asks for my current location. Probably to update the weather on the page, but why can't it just remember that I have approved it!
No there are certain websites that I would like my location used, I just wish I could get rid of the popup. There should be a way to specify these sites.
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Thanks, although as I said above I would like to be able to use locations for some websites I just wish there was a way to indicate this other than via popup.
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Yeah tbh tapatalk is much more annoying between the two, since that is a yes or no question and once you've indicated you do not want that software it should stop asking you.
Oh, well then I got nothing for you. I can see having to create a whitelist of sites to be a bit of a bother for the average user. I am not sure too many people would find this feature useful.