HACKER Q&A
📣 anonu

Hacker News is asking for your location. Why?


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?


  👤 mrspeaker Accepted Answer ✓
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.


👤 dakiol
Has happened the same to me a couple of times.