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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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?

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

NnnnnoooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOO

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (18 children)
[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)

fennec vs ironfox opinions?

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 29 points 4 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”?

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[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Fennec is great on Android

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[–] User79185@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

How about turning off data sharing in whole android... Google...

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

I had already downloaded and installed Ironfox (FF Android fork) on my phone and have been using it for a week or so. It works identically to FF for android. Ublock Origin is working in Ironfox too.

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