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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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AppleWifiNlpBackend
UnifiedNlp Backend that uses Apple's service to resolve wifi locations. Location calculation is done onboard and wifi locations are cached to minimize data usage.
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...
classify-client is probably this project: https://github.com/mozilla/classify-client
Looks like it depends on a GeoIP database.
Well yes but better than Google.
The plugin is open source though
https://github.com/microg/AppleWifiNlpBackend