Mozilla Stumbler Reviews and details

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• Getting my precise location with a Raspberry Pi

  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. Source: 11 months ago

• I need help with getting human readable latitude and longitude out of binary input.

  Echo "0000000100101000110000000,0111110110100110110111110 0100010100110011110100010,0100010111000110110100010 0100010110011110010100010,0111110101010001010111110 0000000101010101010000000,1111111110111010111111111 0101110010100010011011010,0111101111101111110001000 1001010100000000011001101,0010001110100100011111100 1001100101101000000000010,1011001011111000011011100... Source: about 1 year ago

• Location accuracy

  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? Source: about 1 year ago

• Are there any privacy implications of adding Google/MS accounts to GNOME Online Accounts?

  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... Source: about 1 year ago

• teaching my phone to recognize home

  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. Source: over 1 year ago

• WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

  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... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Mozilla, Google, and Manifest V3

  Google mainly makes a search engine deal and pays Mozilla to use Google Location services rather than Mozilla's. Google doesn't control the development of Firefox, or its browser engine Gecko (at least directly, they do maniplulate the market so other browsers are forced to implement their stuff, Manifest v3 itself being an example). Source: over 1 year ago

• What methods are used to locate a phone?

  The same is possible with bluetooth. Source: Mozilla Location Services. Source: over 1 year ago

• 5G speeds no different than 4g speeds?

  Mozilla Location Services Https://location.services.mozilla.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• MLS for CellMapper Users, Primer

  Tower Collector, as an app, collects for both https://opencellid.org/ and https://location.services.mozilla.com/ . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla\_Location\_Service. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Cell tower ID (CID) and location area code LAC to coordinates?

  I had used Google's Geolocation API and Mozilla Location Service in the past. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Low strength yet tower is very close? There is a big metal church to the side of line of sight and a few trees but nothing major.

  NCI uses Mozilla Location Service for mapping, which is hardly accurate to where the tower is. cellmapper.net is much better for mast location. Set provider to 310260 and network to 4G, then tower search for 86584. That mast appears to be a 5G radio with 4G core about 1.3 miles north of you, and right next to the highway. Not great. Source: about 2 years ago

• Why does Twitter know I signed on from my actual location?

  Keep in mind that browsers like Firefox can get your IP by scanning nearby wireless networks and Bluetooth devices. Source: about 2 years ago

• WiGLE – collected wireless hotspots around the world

  I might as well throw a link in here. https://location.services.mozilla.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• How does firefox know my EXACT address?

  Probably https://location.services.mozilla.com. Source: over 2 years ago

• Are Mozilla Location Services and Mozilla Stumbler still active and usable?

  The Mozilla Location Service website explains the service itself quite well, so I recommend giving it a read. Source: over 2 years ago

• How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?

  Shoutout to Mozilla location services (https://location.services.mozilla.com/) that make it very obvious, permissive, and sort of fun to do this. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

  No you won't. What BSSID you're connected to isn't sent by any browser. Browsers (as in all of them, including Firefox, see https://location.services.mozilla.com/ ) will use the visible BSSIDs if the website asks for your location & you approve it, but it's not just silently done automatically. It's part of all the existing location permission & request flows (indeed it's how those work on laptops at all in the... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private

  MicroG includes an open source network location provider called UnifiedNlp: https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp UnifiedNlp allows you to choose the backends your Android device uses to determine the location. Options include: Mozilla Location Services: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.microg.nlp.backend.ichnaea/ Apple Location Services: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.microg.nlp.backend.apple/ OpenCellID:... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• CalyxOS features list

  Mozilla Location Services (and Dejavu) available as default location services https://location.services.mozilla.com/. Source: about 3 years ago

• Why should I use CalyxOS without microG instead of GrapheneOS ?

  Yes, if your CalyxOS phone uses location services to determine where you are, it can use the GSM network, it can use Mozilla's location service ( https://location.services.mozilla.com ) or it can use the Deja Vu location service ( https://fossdroid.com/a/deja-vu-location-service.html ) and it uses the Nominatim service to look up addresses ( https://nominatim.org ) using OpenStreetMap data. Source: about 3 years ago