Comment on Mozilla Axes its Privacy-Friendly Location Service - OMG! Ubuntu
RayJW@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoPlease don’t spread FUD like that. This is unrelated to the CEO since this project has been in an barely alive state for a long time due to patent trolls.
jagungal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Huh, guess I was wrong. Would be nice if they laid that out a bit more explicitly in the article
RayJW@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
In 2013, Mozilla launched MLS as an open service to provide geolocation lookups based on publicly observable radio signals. The service received community submissions of GPS data from the open source MozStumbler Android app. In 2019, Skyhook Holdings, Inc contacted Mozilla and alleged that MLS infringed a number of its patents. We reached an agreement with Skyhook that avoided litigation. This required us to make changes to our MLS policies and made it difficult for us to invest in and expand MLS. In early 2021, we retired the MozStumbler program.
This is from their announcement regarding the sunsetting.