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How to Prevent Google Chrome Location Prompt

Mitch BartlettSeptember 5, 2023 Comments (3)
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One of the most annoying things about Google Chrome is the repeated prompts for websites to access your location. Luckily, you can easily fix the problem.

Contents

    • 0.1 Related Reading:
  • 1 How to Disable the Location Prompt in Google Chrome
  • 2 Disabling the Location Prompt in Google Chrome Shouldn’t Take Too Long

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Below are the steps you should follow to prevent the Google Chrome location prompt on your device.

How to Disable the Location Prompt in Google Chrome

Follow these instructions to stop Google Chrome from asking for your location.

  1. Open Chrome and select Menu  > “Settings“. Settings tab on Chrome
  2. When the Settings section opens, click on Privacy and security. Then, choose Site settings from the next list of options. The site and privacy settings on Google Chrome
  3. Click on Location, which you’ll find under the Permissions section. The location permissions in Google Chrome
  4. Choose Don’t allow sites to see your location. Don't Allow Sites to See Location in Google Chrome

Websites listed in the “Allow” section will still be allowed to access your location by default. Select the trash icon next to sites you wish to block from accessing your location data.

You can still easily allow sites to access your location if you wish. Just select the GPS icon on the right side of the address bar, then select “Manage” to add the website to the “Allow” list.

Disabling the Location Prompt in Google Chrome Shouldn’t Take Too Long

It can get annoying if websites keep asking for you to share your location in Google Chrome, but the good news is that you don’t need to do too much to fix the problem. All that’s required is to sift through a couple of settings within your browser and turn the feature off.

Now that you’ve read this guide, it should be much easier for you to block other websites from asking for your location. And if you need to, you can always refer back to this guide whenever you want.

Categories: SoftwareTagged Updated0813

Author Mitch Bartlett

Through my career that spans over 20 years I have become an expert in Microsoft Systems Administration, Android, and macOS. I started this site as a technical guide for myself and it has grown into what I hope is a useful knowledgebase for everyone.

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Comments

  1. Francis Degnin says:
    December 17, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    Doesn’t work. I’m still getting requests from Chrome for my location. Very frustrating.

    This may have worked in the past, but Google apparently (surprise) doesn’t want us to be able to shut down location data. So they will annoy us with location requests in the hope that we will turn it on.

  2. Joe B says:
    January 24, 2020 at 11:11 am

    January 2020 and Google maps in the chrome browser keeps pestering to allow location. ***NO MEANS NO*** i don’t understand why I can’t permanently refuse.

  3. Phillip says:
    March 28, 2018 at 4:37 pm

    I did this but still get the prompt when a website wants to track my location. :-/

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Last Updated on September 5, 2023 by Mitch Bartlett