Bitcointalk.org would like to use your current location - page 2.

Welsh

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Quote from: AB de Royse777 on September 26, 2019, 05:19:34 AM

I wish we (the forum) had an alternative to Cloudflare :-(

Imagine Cloudflare has all the logs of the IP address that you have ever used to browse your BitcoinTalk account. I do not question that they do not have it yet.

There's other solutions out there, but Cloudflare definitely has the monopoly within the industry. They're unfortunately the best service around in terms of uptime, speed, and features. However, there's definitely been questions about what they do with the data, and who's seeing the data. I've used Cloudflare, and haven't had too many complaints about them. Possibly if there was a decent competitor I'd give them a look though. I think I remember theymos being somewhat reluctant to using them also.

Harlot

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We might need more than one incident to confirm that this is really happening because of cloudflare because right now we just need this to be treated as a individual problem which is only related to his phone or the app he is using. @OP haven't you experience the pop up on other websites which doesn't usually ask for your location? If it is maybe it is really related to your browser app or you might have other third party apps doing that for you in disguised of a website asking your location.

Lafu

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I never got this "Bitcointalk.org would like to use your current location" on my Computer or on my mobile phone.
First time i hear and see about that notification .

AB de Royse777

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I wish we (the forum) had an alternative to Cloudflare :-(

Imagine Cloudflare has all the logs of the IP address that you have ever used to browse your BitcoinTalk account. I do not question that they do not have it yet.

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teeGUMES

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Could it be an invasive app that recognizes the word bitcoin and is collecting info for potential malware/information gathering? I hardly have anything on my phone app wise because the permissions get out of hand real fast.

libert19

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This is the link, op tried to visit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319540.1280

I didn't get any prompt, tried multiple browsers as well. Seems like a browser glitch to me.

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Quote from: LTU_btc on September 25, 2019, 04:38:55 PM

On private tab I didn't got that request. But now when visited this link in regular way, I didn't got this request too. As I said, so far I only got this notification only once.

It's not gonna ask again if you blocked (or allowed) it. Assuming it's Chrome, go to (Lithuanian equivalents of) Settings, Site Settings, Location, find Bitcointalk under Blocked or Allowed, remove it, and try again.

Welsh

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You'd think that Cloudflare would have the decency to turn newly implemented features off to prevent these sorts of issues. Especially when most websites don't need this sort of in depth location detection. Despite Cloudflare probably being the best option its things like these which put me off of using them.

LTU_btc

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Quote from: theymos on September 25, 2019, 04:28:15 PM

If you visit the same page in a private tab, does it request your location still? (This isn't a sure-fire way to test it, but if it's a problem on my end which I didn't fix, this might trigger it.) Does anyone else see it?

On private tab I didn't got that request. But now when visited this link in regular way, I didn't got this request too. As I said, so far I only got this notification only once.

theymos

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I've never heard of that before. I can see in the access logs that you were talking to bitcointalk.org, though.

My first thought is some sort of browser glitch or extension.

My second thought is that it's Cloudflare. Normally Cloudflare doesn't do anything like that, but it reminds me of a case several months ago where they introduced some new feature which worked by injected Javascript into the page for mobile users only, and I had to go turn that off once I learned of it. (I forget exactly what the feature did.) At a guess, maybe they added this as a way to improve the accuracy of their IPCountry header: since bitcointalk.org doesn't use that, I just now turned that off.

If you visit the same page in a private tab, does it request your location still? (This isn't a sure-fire way to test it, but if it's a problem on my end which I didn't fix, this might trigger it.) Does anyone else see it?

If it's some change in Cloudflare, you'd see it on a lot of sites, since CF is very widely used.

LTU_btc

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Quote from: TryNinja on September 25, 2019, 04:13:01 PM

Is your phone rooted?
Or are you using any browser extension?

Nope, it's not rooted and I don't have any extensions on my browser

TryNinja

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Is your phone rooted?
Or are you using any browser extension?

LTU_btc

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Quote from: Last of the V8s on September 25, 2019, 03:59:58 PM

Cannot be the proper bitcointalk.
theymos wouldn't need that.
possible puny codes? https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/punycode-and-how-to-protect-yourself-from-spoofed-urls-and-fake-websites-5184169

Nope, it's proper Bitcointalk, because I was signed in to my Bitcointalk when I visited this link. If it would be fake website, I would have to enter my login data to sign in.

Last of the V8s

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Cannot be the proper bitcointalk.
theymos wouldn't need that.
possible puny codes? https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/punycode-and-how-to-protect-yourself-from-spoofed-urls-and-fake-websites-5184169

LTU_btc

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Today I was looking for one Bitcointalk thread on Google. I visited one link that I got in search results and got this notification:

It says "Bitcointalk.org would like to use your current location".
At first I thought it's phishing website, but no, it's original Bitcointalk. I have never faced it on Bitcointalk before. Does it come from Cloudflare? Because I don't know why theymos would want to know our location.

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