Retiring the Mozilla Location Service
Retiring the Mozilla Location Service
The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service. I...
well that sucks a lot, a bunch of projects including microG have relied on it.
adjacent discussion on microG's Github: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2237
There's an interesting comment on this post about Graphene OS' plans in this area, it's quite a long comment so I'll link it. The first para reads:
GrapheneOS Foundation has been planning to host a network location service for GrapheneOS and projects collaborating with us for a while now. We've received significant funding we can put to use for this to make a high quality, modern implementation on both the client and server side. A new unified app (cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth beacons) for gathering data to publish as fully open data could also be part of it. We also plan to make a SUPL implementation as part of the same service as an alternative to our Google SUPL proxy to replace it as the default in the long term.
for [...] projects collaborating with us
welp, there go my hopes for getting it on CalyxOS.
It'll probably be open for anyone to use. They'll just be pissy about it.
Interesting, the inaccuracy of the MLS was exactly what attracted me to it. I'm not interested in a location service knowing my exact location at any given time. If I'm somehow too drunk to see and realise where I am, I'll ask somebody.
sad!