* [ISSUE] [RFC] Geolocation in Firefox - Mozilla Location Services has been shutdown
@ 2024-10-29 1:05 menaechmi
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From: menaechmi @ 2024-10-29 1:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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New issue by menaechmi on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/52823
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Per https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065 since March 27th, 2024 Mozilla Location Services has been returning a 403 response to all location service requests through Mozilla Location Services and the service is now only available for Mozilla's use cases.
Void has used MLS since 2021 commit https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/43366049eb57ad4cf7afad2cc05fd99eaf28f440 which addressed issue: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/34728
Here are a few possible solutions. In no particular order, but numbered for ease of reference:
1. Use Google Location Services by default. This is upstream Firefox's choice but may not work for Void because of API key issues (see https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/34728 and the linked https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/28233)
2. Remove the line in vendor.js and expect/help void users to generate their own API keys and add it to firefox
3. ~~Use `geoclue2` as the default geolocation provider~~ (also relied on MLS and can no longer provide WI-FI location)
4. Use an entirely different location service (it seems https://beacondb.net/ and https://positon.xyz/ are suggested by geoclue)
Of course, other options may be possible or preferred, but until something happens, geolocation will not work in Firefox on Void.
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