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by rsoto 872 days ago
I'm on the fence. While I think some of these features should be absolutely not part of a browser's scope, I think there will always be legitimate use cases.

What I'm absolutely convinced of is for better controls. A little more than a year ago, our government required the banking industry to know their users' locations for some reason. So now the banks ask for my location, otherwise I can't login.

While on a mobile device it would be quite hard to give them a fake location without rooting/jailbreaking, in my browser I could find a reputable, open source extension [1] that helps me protect my privacy.

These kind of controls should be part of each of these features, without risking installing an extension with nefarious intent.

1: https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard

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"Available on Firefox for Androidâ„¢" - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/location-guar...

You said it works on your browser...