Ancestors

Toot

Written by John Allsopp on 2025-01-17 at 22:27

Google must have had a 'let's enshittify a bunch of stuff all at once and flood the zone' moment since as of yesterday in google maps desktop Safari, when I try to choose 'current location' instead of asking via the Geo API, it simply says 'Google Maps does not have permission to use your location' and essentially asks for permanent access.

In Mac Chrome still asks for permission to use the GEO Location API

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Descendants

Written by Random Geek on 2025-01-17 at 22:29

@johnallsopp these big companies out there saying "LLMs now write x% of our code" and you know what I'm starting to believe them.

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Written by John Allsopp on 2025-01-17 at 22:30

@randomgeek oh I do not think this is tactical incompetence.

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Written by Random Geek on 2025-01-17 at 22:31

@johnallsopp a deliberate strategery?

It's probably more likely than I think.

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Written by Ben S on 2025-01-18 at 07:10

@johnallsopp this is the way

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1589391989

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Written by Brian Suda :verified: on 2025-01-18 at 22:18

@johnallsopp also notice that awhile ago the deprecated maps.google.com to google.com/maps so the cookies and permissions were no longer cross domain.

If you agree to maps using your geo, you just allowed any google.com site that same access.

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Written by John Allsopp on 2025-01-19 at 21:17

@briansuda so it seems to have returned today… a bit of A/B testing?

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