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It's not fully accurate but it's normally within a few hundred metres. Question is where has it got this location from?
IP address.
It knows from the Google account the precision of where the IP address is. But it will locate roughly based on it when not signed in on the Google account.
Use a VPN to prove it.
Velocio
I use Chrome for google stuff and Firefox for other stuff. I'm not logged in to my google account on Firefox (so far as I'm aware).
When I search for places on Firefox and go on google maps it also shows my location. It's not fully accurate but it's normally within a few hundred metres. Question is where has it got this location from?
I'm assuming it isn't my phone as I'm not signed in and I don't think it should be the browser as, so far as I can tell, that doesn't have any sites with location granted. Any bright ideas, am I missing some other setting on Firefox or something? Am I actually logged in somehow?