“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

In Google Chrome, you simply type into the address bar, "chrome://flags", and search for, "--unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure", enable that flag, and enter into the field below (multiples may be entered separated by a comma) the domain you wish to treat as secure. This may or may not compromise your security, but I would assume not as getCurrentPosition() and watchPosition() are somewhat recently deprecated features. this works for publicly served domains, as well.