It can request with a JS call. It can't passively collect it without you approving first. The article is written like calling that JS function will turn on location tracking without consent.

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mattdeboard 5 hours ago | parent [-]

He explicitly says he can't determine it, but that the location tracking as configured will turn on once the user grants consent. All true statements.

How would you have written it differently

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logifail 5 hours ago | parent [-]

"If the user chooses to opt-in and grants location-tracking permission, the app is then, and only then, able to track the user's location?"

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ceejayoz 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But that's not true; it could easily fallback to other forms of geolocation like using the current IP.

	▲	buzzerbetrayed 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Good lord. So could literally any app on the planet

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mattdeboard 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You would be lying if you wrote that because you do not know if that is true.