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Re:Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data... by intuxikated on Sunday June 12, 2022 @07:33AM (#31713732)
firefox has something called the mozilla location provider, which maps wifi access points to locations, which is similar to what google maps uses when you have gps disabled on mobile
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Re:Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data... by hedora on Sunday June 12, 2022 @09:53AM (#31714502)
Is there a way to turn that off? I never want my browser location services to work.
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Re:Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data... by jeroenhd on Sunday June 12, 2022 @10:28AM (#31714754)
Go to about:config () and set geo.enabled to false.

: if you're on Android, you'll need either an unstable version (Beta, Nightly) or a fork (Fennec from F-Droid) of Firefox to get access to that page because Mozilla decided users of the standard distribution can't be trusted with these settings.

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Re:Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data... by WithinReason on Sunday June 12, 2022 @07:37AM (#31713742)
This would make sense, thank you. Apparently Chrome has something similar?
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