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Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

calyxos here I come

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Fennec is great on Android

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Pretty easy to disable the location app permission or set it to ask every time. Firefox hasn't asked me to enable it since turning it off.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm pretty sure Firefox won't ask for or use your location, unless a website wants it for some reason (which is almost never a good one).

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 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?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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?

Nothing, because they dont sell location data, this just seems like a routine warning that pops up when ToS and Privacy policy changes, and since they have clarified their position on this matter, (not to mention the lack of alternative FOSS web engines). We really shouldn't let this bother us

Of course i might be wrong and it may come out that Mozilla has turned heel(lot of heel turning happening lately)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No custom ROM use MLS anymore. It was shut down a few years ago.

Anyway, in general, apps get their location data from Play Services.

Apps that don't use Play Services get data from the default provider, which is always Google.

The successor of MLS is BeaconDB.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do they mean “Firefox can get your location data to pass on to pages you give permission to, who we cannot guarantee won’t share it with advertisers” or “Firefox reserves the right to do a deal to monetise the tantalising firehose of location data coming from your device unless you specifically opt out”?