Mozilla has announced it is ending access to Mozilla Location Service (MLS), which provides accurate, privacy-respecting, and crowdsourced geolocation
Yet another privacy respecting service shuttered.
I fear for the future. We already have a generation that was raised under surveillance and who lash out at anyone who seeks this type of privacy, and it’s only going to get worse. Surveillance is becoming more and more normalized.
My greatest fear is that Firefox itself could one day shut down.
Seriously think I’d be better off as a hermit somewhere in remote rural Mexico. Anyone wanna join me? Just send me your name, address, a non-VOIP phone number, a full set of fingerprints, and retinal scans, and you’re in. /s
jagungal@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is just a taste of what’s to come from a Mozilla led by Laura Chambers, the new CEO. We should not let her get away with making these decisions as the faceless Mozilla, and we should make sure that the communities impacted by her decisions are made aware of who is responsible for them.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
They had no method of getting new data for two years already, because Google disallowed location collection like that on Android. It was just a matter of time before the service would be turned off.
RayJW@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Please don’t spread FUD like that. This is unrelated to the CEO since this project has been in an barely alive state for a long time due to patent trolls.
jagungal@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Huh, guess I was wrong. Would be nice if they laid that out a bit more explicitly in the article