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by Triv888 1998 days ago
So Firefox on Desktop would share with Google which wireless network I'm connected to?
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What network you're connected to doesn't matter. What matters is what networks your device sees.
On desktop/linux/firefox/private window and vpn, how can Google know which Wi-Fi network I'm connected to?
HTML5 geolocation if you ever click allow even one time can granularly identify location based on where you are. It sends nearby MAC and correlates this to wardriving-equivalent scans. You do not need to be connected to wifi.