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minus-square@SynonymousStoatlinkEnglish39•16 hours agoPretty easy to disable the location app permission or set it to ask every time. Firefox hasn’t asked me to enable it since turning it off.
minus-squareGhoelianlinkfedilinkEnglish12•9 hours agoYeah I’m pretty sure Firefox won’t ask for or use your location, unless a website wants it for some reason (which is almost never a good one).
minus-square@kuneholinkEnglish2•8 hours agoand even then, for me at least, the dialog that pops up is broken and lot of times the “Allow” button literally does nothing
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-4•14 hours agoDidn’t they also elude to collecting telemetry recently? I know it’s up for some debate but, if true, I’m not sure that’s a thing we can turn off.
Pretty easy to disable the location app permission or set it to ask every time. Firefox hasn’t asked me to enable it since turning it off.
Yeah I’m pretty sure Firefox won’t ask for or use your location, unless a website wants it for some reason (which is almost never a good one).
and even then, for me at least, the dialog that pops up is broken and lot of times the “Allow” button literally does nothing
Didn’t they also elude to collecting telemetry recently? I know it’s up for some debate but, if true, I’m not sure that’s a thing we can turn off.