Re:Firefox bullshit removal
by gsich on Friday January 12, 2018 @08:40PM
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Location is pretty useless. It is based on what address your ISP has in most cases.
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Re:Firefox bullshit removal
by Viper007Bond on Friday January 12, 2018 @09:24PM
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On the contrary. Maybe if you're on a hardwired desktop, but for everything else it is incredibly accurate. You don't even need to have GPS in your device -- WiFi is plenty.
Try it: https://whereamirightnow.com/ It puts my laptop exactly where I am.
I'm on a desktop with no wi-fi card and it's within a stone's throw, how the hell...
> It puts my laptop exactly where I am.
Did you allow permission for location? Because if you did, it kind of defeats the purpose of showing that disabling this permission helps obscure your location to websites.. On my desktop, it asked for permission, and when denied it threw up its hands and said that it had no idea where I was.
Re:Firefox bullshit removal
by Viper007Bond on Saturday January 13, 2018 @02:50AM
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Yes, of course because the comment I was replying to was about location being worthless in general.
Wired, it gives me a location 3 miles away from my house.
Smartphone, it want to use GPS. That's kind of cheating, isn't it?
Re:Firefox bullshit removal
by userbinator on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:36PM
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Smartphone, it want to use GPS. That's kind of cheating, isn't it?
It is, but it also shows just how much information people could leak if they casually dismiss any permissions prompting with "allow" (or even worse, have such permissions be granted by default.)
Which makes the removal of the location feature (or the default off) all the more better.
The OP said wifi w/o GPS. Give that a shot maybe?
Yeah, I tried that, but the mobile version of website refuses to proceed without GPS.
Re:Firefox bullshit removal
by michaelmrose on Friday January 12, 2018 @09:09PM
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You can get an addon to set your location manually if like mmost non mobile devices there is no actual gps.
I use this so that I get actually accurate results.