Chrome finally lets you tell websites to ease off the stalking

• Chrome on Android now lets you share an approximate location instead of your exact one.
• You no longer have to give precise coordinates just to check basic things like weather or news.
• The update is Android-only for now, but desktop Chrome support is on the way.

It can feel invasive to give your exact location to every website that asks. Allowing your location access often meant sharing your precise spot, even for something as simple as checking the weather. Google is now introducing a helpful privacy update.

On Chrome for Android, you can now choose to share only your approximate location with websites, Archit Agarwal, a Chrome product manager, wrote in a blog post. He described it as a simple way to give you more control over your location data.