MozStumbler Alternatives

MozStumbler reviews and mentions

• Getting my precise location with a Raspberry Pi
  1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 28 May 2023

  There are location services that use the strength of nearby wifi, and Bluetooth beacons to guess where you are by comparing what you phone sees with a massive database, such as the Mozilla Location Services (link) but they won't work if you are in the middle of nowhere.

• I need help with getting human readable latitude and longitude out of binary input.
  1 project | /r/GPStracking | 19 Apr 2023

  echo "0000000100101000110000000,0111110110100110110111110 0100010100110011110100010,0100010111000110110100010 0100010110011110010100010,0111110101010001010111110 0000000101010101010000000,1111111110111010111111111 0101110010100010011011010,0111101111101111110001000 1001010100000000011001101,0010001110100100011111100 1001100101101000000000010,1011001011111000011011100 0001000101101110000001110,1111011010011011001001010 0001110010100010000000000,1111111100110111011101001 0000000101110001010101111,0111110111100101011100100 0100010110011000000000001,0100010111011000011011111 0100010100001110000000000,0111110111111010010011010 0000000100000010100001100" | nc -4u -w1 location.services.mozilla.com 9876

• Location accuracy
  1 project | /r/archlinux | 14 Apr 2023

  This means that MLS falls back to using the sender's IP address to determine the location. So it being hundreds of kilometers off is definitely in the realm of possibilities. Does this device have wifi? Is it turned on?

• Are there any privacy implications of adding Google/MS accounts to GNOME Online Accounts?
  1 project | /r/gnome | 4 Apr 2023

  One source of location data are wifi access points. Geoclue sends the MAC addresses and signal strengths of the access points that your system sees at the moment to a service operated by Mozilla https://location.services.mozilla.com/. That service uses that data to calculate your approximate location based on a database of access point locations. So if you're using the same access point now that you used in your place, and if the Mozilla database still has the old location for that access point, that would explain why you're getting the old location.

• teaching my phone to recognize home
  1 project | /r/AndroidQuestions | 2 Jan 2023

  It ostensibly functions by talking to other providers, such as Mozilla Location Services (MLS) to do the exact same process. So you're just trusting Mozilla (and others) with your information rather than Google.

• WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2022

  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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