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ichnaea
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Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service
The rather troubling part of this announcement in a GitHub issue is that this nugget comes out in a seemingly innocuous comment[1]:
>> Firefox still uses MLS for `browser.region.network.url`; will that also move to Google Location Services?
> This endpoint will be migrated to another service (classify-client) that will return the expected response. We'll adjust DNS entries when it's time to make that move so firefox won't see any difference.
What exactly is this "classify-client" service?
Note also this led me to discover for the first time that this is a thing[2]:
> Geolocation for default search engine
> In order to set the right default search engine for your location, Firefox will perform a geolocation lookup once by contacting Mozilla's servers and store the country-level result locally. This connection happens on the first start of Firefox – in case you want to prohibit that, you will have to preconfigure the browser and set the browser.search.geoip.url preference to a blank string.
Also related is [3].
[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#issuecomment-...
[2]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...
[3]: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/iq27wa/disabling_l...
- Retiring the Mozilla Location Service
- How, what, who, and, why?
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WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping
I don't know what WiGLE users do with the data, but the WiGLE admins sold Wi-Fi location data to Microsoft to bootstrap Bing Maps back in the day.
I helped bootstrap Mozilla's Location Service (MLS) to support geolocation on Firefox OS without Google Location Services. Mozilla even had its own Wi-Fi "wardriving/stumbling" app (MozStumbler https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler) and an opt-in stumbler in Firefox Android. But once Firefox OS was retired, there wasn't much need for MLS. However, Mozilla still runs a Wi-Fi geolocation service open to other projects (like GNOME's Geoclue service).
Mozilla also publishes cell tower location data and shares with the OpenCellID stumbling project. I worked with Mozilla's privacy and security teams to see if we could publish the Wi-Fi location data, but we didn't find a privacy-preserving way to do that.
For more information about MLS, check out https://location.services.mozilla.com/
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Mozilla, Google, and Manifest V3
Google mainly makes a search engine deal and pays Mozilla to use Google Location services rather than Mozilla's. Google doesn't control the development of Firefox, or its browser engine Gecko (at least directly, they do maniplulate the market so other browsers are forced to implement their stuff, Manifest v3 itself being an example).
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What methods are used to locate a phone?
The same is possible with bluetooth. Source: Mozilla Location Services
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MLS for CellMapper Users, Primer
Tower Collector, as an app, collects for both https://opencellid.org/ and https://location.services.mozilla.com/ . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla\_Location\_Service
- Happy Windows 11 Laptop Users in 2023
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Cell tower ID (CID) and location area code LAC to coordinates?
I had used Google's Geolocation API and Mozilla Location Service in the past.
GmsCore
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LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices
Is anyone here daily-driving microg and can share their experiences? https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status does not exactly inspire confidence.
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Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages
...will need to be rewritten to avoid Google Play Services.
Not true.
All that needs to happen is for open source developers to "re-implement Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries".
https://microg.org/
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A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative
microG itself connects directly to Google: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connec...
No shit, of course they do.
>In general, we obviously try to minimize the connections to Google, but some services strictly rely on them and would just not work without.
What exactly do you think they should do instead?
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I need a help
MicroG
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Plans to update to 0.3 in microg's lineage builds?
In release notes for GmsCore v0.2.29.233013 (https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.2.29.233013), I also see:
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[Help] Is there a module I can install that enables push notifications on a device without google services?
Yes, the Xposed module is one way. There are also other ways
- Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons
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Which MicroG fork and version should I use?
Which one should I use? Is this MicroG's official website right? (https://microg.org/)
- New version out 0.30
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Use ChatGPT Android app w/o Google Play Store installed/enabled
Have a look into https://microg.org/ . Revanced yt uses a fork of GmsCore for its non-root install, though you still have to log in with a google account.
What are some alternatives?
UnifiedNlp - Alternative network location provider for Android, with plugin interface to easily integrate third-party location providers.
MinMicroG - Sources and scripts for MinMicroG installers. You shall find no prebuilt releases here.
location-guard - Hide your geographic location from websites.
FakeGApps - A better approach for microg
Nominatim - Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap data
openauto - AndroidAuto headunit emulator
webappsec-permissions-policy - A mechanism to selectively enable and disable browser features and APIs
WiFi-Automatic - Automatically turn off WiFi if you don't need it
opengapps - The main repository of the Open GApps Project
MozStumbler - Android Stumbler for Mozilla
anbox - Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system