Category: Mozilla
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Mozilla Discontinues Its Privacy-Enhancing Location Service
Mozilla has announced it is ending access to Mozilla Location Service (MLS), which provides accurate, privacy-respecting, and crowdsourced geolocation data. Developers and 3rd-party projects that use MLS to detect a users’ location, such as the freedesktop.org location framework GeoClue, which is used by apps like GNOME Maps and Weather, have only a few months left…
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Mozilla Declares Staff Cuts, Pivots Attention Back on Firefox
Mozilla, creators of the Firefox web browser, have recently announced the need for layoffs. The charitable organization released a statement that due to decreased developments on several projects, about 60 staff members (which is around 5% of their whole team) will have to be let go. The projects that are experiencing cutbacks, as noted by…
