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Re:Firefox bullshit removal by loeg on Friday January 12, 2018 @09:46PM (#16137986)
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?

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Re:Firefox bullshit removal by userbinator on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:36PM (#16138152)
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.)

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Re:Firefox bullshit removal by gsich on Saturday January 13, 2018 @08:44AM (#16139568)
Which makes the removal of the location feature (or the default off) all the more better.
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Re:Firefox bullshit removal by weberc2 on Saturday January 13, 2018 @10:37AM (#16139918)
The OP said wifi w/o GPS. Give that a shot maybe?
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Re:Firefox bullshit removal by loeg on Saturday January 13, 2018 @01:44PM (#16140651)
Yeah, I tried that, but the mobile version of website refuses to proceed without GPS.
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