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Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data (lemmy.world)
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 23 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (5 children)

So if Mozilla wants to monetize location data, what does this mean for all the custom ROMs that use Mozilla's location provider instead of Google's?

This might mean that we would have no true free location provider left.

Edit: just was thinking, what does this mean for Firefox forks that also use Mozilla's location service?

[–] anasTheCatwanji@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

wait, mozilla has a location provider? maybe there is open street map, idk what's the difference between a map and a location provider

[–] falcunculus@jlai.lu 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My (probably incomplete) understanding is: phones have a GNSS chip (such as GPS, Galileo, or Glonass), but getting location from that takes a long time and a lot of battery. So they estimate location based on other information such as what cell tower they are connected to and the list of available wi-fi networks. This requires a database with all that info, which Google built through its Street View cars.

So the location provider is a service to which your phone sends all the info it has and which replies with an estimate of your location; which means it handles a lot of sensitive data.

[–] anasTheCatwanji@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago

ooh does openstreetmap have a location viewer? it would be better for privacy than mozzila and google

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