Mozilla Location Service will be terminated

[DoctorG]

The Geolocation Service for Mozilla browsers ens after more than a decade.

Sunset Announcement
On March 13th 2024 it was announced that Mozilla Location Service will be sunset. Details can be found in the announcment here.
– https://location.services.mozilla.com

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

[stardepp]

@DoctorG Yes, Firefox is becoming less and less important. No wonder, Mozilla is removing more and more useful functions from Firefox. That's why I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi back in 2018.

[AllanH]

One of the browsers I use is LibreWolf.
A LibreWolf user suggested position.xyz (https://positon.xyz/) as a replacement for Mozilla Location Service.
Could someone who knows enough about it say whether this could work for Vivaldi's browser geolocation?
Are the Vivaldi developers interested in browser geolocation?

[DoctorG]

@AllanH Not for commercial products as written in docs.

And currently Vivaldi uses the geolocation service of the OS. Windows works, but i do not know about current use in Linux (had used Mozilla in the past) and MacOS.

[AllanH]

@DoctorG said in Mozilla Location Service will be terminated:

@AllanH Not for commercial products as written in docs.

I should have noticed that.

[DoctorG]

@AllanH I always check Pricing and Privacy and Terms of Use if shown on such websites.

[Catweazle]

For me is pretty irrelevant, I always desactivate geolocalisation in desktop and mobile, I don't need that a company knows and log at every moment where I am, it's enough when I know it.
On mobile, if needed in a strange city, I use the OSM in old school manner searching the localisation by hand or simply asking someone.

[DoctorG]

@Catweazle Geolocation is only used by me when i am testing at office, under other circumstances i have it deactivated to avoid giving a OS company a collection to track which locations i visit.

[Catweazle]

@DoctorG, same with weather apps, if you use them, it's better to enter the city by hand and not to use the automatic GPS data. Part, instead of using weather apps from private companies, the best is always the one from the official from the meteorologic institute of the country (AEMET in Spain), there are no ads or trackers, it's anyway the source of all other weather apps.