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Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps



On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:48:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

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> Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the 
> internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using 
> this information for (internal only or providing it to other software).

What do you expect? A big Rube-Goldberg machine made out of javascript
will access the internet without even being aware of it ;-D

> Unless one is using technologies like VPNs or Tor *any* site you access 
> on the internet will have your IP information and consequently also your 
> (aproximate) location.

That's why you better solve that part at the machine's network level.

That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing
name resolution over HTTPS.

Cheers
-- t

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