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GNOME Maps showing the location of the apartment building we used to live in in Malmö, Sweden.

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  1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 22-Apr-2022 11:21:05 UTC Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Wow, ok, this is freaky.

    New computer. Fedora Silverblue 36. Not signed into anything. Location services is on (using Mozilla location services). I’ve been living in Ireland now for 3+ years.

    I open GNOME Maps app. I grant it location access. I press the “Go to current location” button.

    It goes to the exact location of the home we had in Malmö, Sweden.

    What. The. Fuck?

    OK, so I have no idea how that’s possible. Mozilla must have somehow cached that location but how do they know it’s me?

    In conversation Friday, 22-Apr-2022 11:21:05 UTC from mastodon.ar.al permalink
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