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ChatGPT knows your location regardless of permissions

I have never shared my location with ChatGPT and made sure my phone does not give access to locations either. Neither precise nor approximate location is shared. Still somehow it just dropped my location into a conversation and couldn't give an answer as to how it knew. It stated "I cannot access y…

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  1. 2026-11-03 18:48 · r/ChatGPT
    ChatGPT knows your location regardless of permissions

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