HTML5 geolocation in facebook app browser - no allow/block prompt

Question

I have a website which uses HTML5 geolocation. It works very well except through the Android Facebook in-app browser. This is the internal app browser that opens when a link is clicked in the Facebook app.

Normally when accessing the page a user would get a use location prompt (Allow / Block) but in the Facebook app nothing is requested and the page/site doesn't have location access.

Does anybody, for the love of all that's holy, know a solution to this or even a way around it?

I'm kind of at my wit's end here as I do not have a valid solution other than recognising that the user is in the Facebook browser and asking them to break out via the 'Open in Chrome' menu setting.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure that the Facebook in-app browser doesn't implement the HTML5 geolocation API on purpose because that would be a very easy way for somebody to phish out people's location since a lot of people already allow location for their Facebook app.