Location prompts

[Bosque Bill]

Is there a way to disable the "wanderthewest.com wants to use your location" prompt? If I just click "deny" it pops again on the very next page. If I click "remember decision for one day" (which is how Safari handles it) I can navigate around until the next day when I have to go through this all over again.

No offense, but there is no reason for WTW to have my browser location.

Thanks.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Bill I get those also but I just hit deny and it doesn't usually come back during that session.
I think the admin will work on it. Several other members have also voiced the dislike.
Frank

 

[pnwlife]

In Safari (with a WTW page open) go to Settings; click on Websites; select Location; select Deny. Done!

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

No offense, but there is no reason for WTW to have my browser location.

It is irksome. However, Safari doesn't seem to know where my tablet is; so your iPad will likely send out a deceiving location. When going to sites, such as Home Depot and the like, Apple "shows" my tablet as being in the southern Orange County coastal communities of southern California, the east San Francisco Bay or Sacramento area, and changes the site settings to show me as if I'm shopping stores in those areas. I live in north central Nevada 94 miles from where Idaho, Oregon and Nevada meet and have set my HD store location as in Elko, Nevada; but Safari always overrides it and moves me to California.

 

[AWG_Pics]

I live in north central Nevada 94 miles from where Idaho, Oregon and Nevada meet and have set my HD store location as in Elko, Nevada; but Safari always overrides it and moves me to California.

Anyone afraid of AI taking over just needs to contemplate this for a couple of minutes.

 

[craig333]

HD thinks I'm in Socal for some reason.

 

[Sagebrush Reconnoiterer]

Anyone afraid of AI taking over just needs to contemplate this for a couple of minutes.

In my way of thinking, how can artificial intelligence be created by natural stupidity?

 

[PaulT]

Assuming you run a VPN for security, turn off your VPN & try again where your location is wrong.

Check where your VPN sets up your location to see if it matches the one where HD, etc are reporting you are.

Paul

 

[PaulT]

The appearance of advertisements along with location prompts suggests a change to a targeted ad change to accumulate revenue. If so, please be honest about it and let us know the plans. I suspect such a change may result in member attrition.

 

[goinoregon]

its a free site, with volunteer moderators, managers. i assume the pop ups come with this territory, and cause me not anxiety.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

The appearance of advertisements along with location prompts suggests a change to a targeted ad change to accumulate revenue. If so, please be honest about it and let us know the plans. I suspect such a change may result in member attrition.

its a free site, with volunteer moderators, managers. i assume the pop ups come with this territory, and cause me not anxiety.

In Safari (with a WTW page open) go to Settings; click on Websites; select Location; select Deny. Done!

Paul, I think Greg (goinoregon) nailed it. RVLife is a business that provides us with the WTW forum at no cost to us. I don’t see anything nefarious in the works, and the practice of displaying ads to offset operating expenses is common in a number of forums.

Regarding the location prompts, I believe pnwlife is correct. As soon as I changed my website settings to Deny, the location requests disappeared.