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by sbisker 5653 days ago
The minute I type in "blonde" or whatever, the first thing Chrome does is say "The browser would like to know your physical location" before it even begins loading the map. I feel like if I was trying to be discrete about my erotic actions, I'd be inclined to click "no".

More concerningly, the entire page stops loading before you make up your mind (since the whole page is a google map, I'm guessing?) - this makes it look like you have to say "yes" in order to use the website at all. You may want to look into trying to get parts of the site to load first that make it clearer that getting your location is an optional part of the experience.

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it should not ask for loc on the search page. Ill fix that.
well, it's not on the search ('home') page, but as soon as you type anything it takes you to the map and that's when the browser asks for location.

I think another reason CL does so well - in all services - is that it allows me to browse wherever I want - not tied to my current location.

One of my favorite things about CL writ large is that they don't try to be smart, they just organize things reasonably so that people can more easily find what they're looking for.