ERROR(1): User denied Geolocation

Question

While I was researching in order to answer a question on Stack Oveflow en español, I decided to try the code on https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/getCurrentPosition¹.

But I got the following error

Warning: ERROR(1): User denied Geolocation

I think that Google Chrome is considering the stack snippet as insecure. See Geolocation API Removed from Unsecured Origins in Chrome 50. Is there something that as end-user I could do to make this work?

¹ The referred link was the original source of the referenced code. If you need the English version see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/getCurrentPosition but bear in mind that the Mozilla Developer Network docs are edited by the community and some language versions are not direct translations of another.

var options = {
  enableHighAccuracy: true,
  timeout: 5000,
  maximumAge: 0
};

function success(pos) {
  var crd = pos.coords;

  console.log('Your current position is:');
  console.log('Latitude : ' + crd.latitude);
  console.log('Longitude: ' + crd.longitude);
  console.log('More or less ' + crd.accuracy + ' meters.');
};

function error(err) {
  console.warn('ERROR(' + err.code + '): ' + err.message);
};

navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(success, error, options);

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Answer 1

My question on Stack Overflow en español got an answer. The most relevant part is that Stack Snippet is blocking the Geolocation API due to the lack of allow-same-origin flag on the sandbox attribute of the iframe used to embed Stack Snippets.

As end-user as a workaround we could add the flag manually or by writing a command on the browser console or to use another service like JSFiddle.

IMHO, a feature request should be made.