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Did Mozilla just sell all Firefox users' location data to AccuWeather without our consent? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by AeroLemming@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This just showed up on my home page after an update. I wasn't asked and never gave any sort of consent.

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[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are probably just using your IP address to determine the location. That will show the location of your ISP, not your location. That's not much more info than any other server gets when you are connecting to it. Also does not require Mozilla to send any geolocation data.

[–] AeroLemming@lemm.ee -4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I hope so. Them buying an advertising company and then pulling this shit has got me feeling paranoid.