Why is the mobile meetup.com web site so annoying
I use the meetup.com web site on my phone with some frequency.
Every single time I click on anything at all, two things happen:
Meetup.com tries to access my location. I get a popup in Safari asking me if I want to send my location to meetup.com. The answer is no, I don't. All I'm trying to do is access my account and information about meetups that I'm already subscribed to. Meetup doesn't need to know my location. But it still requests my location every time I follow a link on the site.
I get a popup prompting me to download and use the Meetup app. I don't need or want the app. The web site works fine. The popup doesn't even tell me what would work better with the app, it's just an ad for the app that I don't want. And it's not immediately obvious how to close the ad. There's no "X" button anywhere. You just have to kinda tap somewhere else, outside of the ad.
This is a horrible user experience. Does anybody at meetup.com use their own product? Do people there think this is okay?