“unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure” flag is not working on Chrome

Question

I am using geo-location for a site running locally on my machine using HTTP on Chrome. However this does not work as I am running on HTTP as opposed to HTTPS.

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Answer 1

With Chrome 79 this setting doesn't work no matter what.

What I ended up doing was to configure the domain on a VPS to show some test webpage and then generate a valid certificate for it using Let's Encrypt's certbot.

Then I copied that certificate to my machine and it's now valid.