Evil people at mozilla

pavelmachek.livejournal.com

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Pretty confused about this whole sensationalized title, but even more by the fact that it's 2014 and Livejournal is still around.

Based on the post's content, I have no idea what the complaint is. Can some one provide some more context?

Guessing here: Mozilla has a location service, fed by volunteers/contributors. One way to contribute is by installing the MozStumbler app.

It seems the author contributes and is now disappointed about the inability to download the full dataset and pouts. I would be interested in the full dataset myself, fail to see the why Mozilla guys are evil if they don't provide me the information about wifi names around the world.

I think the author is complaining about the opposite: Mozilla is now making available GPS coordinates from volunteer's contributions, which could be used to determine where a volunteer lives.

Reading it again and again I can see how you got that impression. It doesn't mix well with

> Data actually useful for non-evil purposes, like cell numbers and wifi APs are still not available for download.

but the bits around it .. might work either way (non-native speaker here, but so is the author it seems).

One way or another, the post has a crappy title and doesn't explain itself well enough.

If I comment on his blog, will he give me access to download his blog database?

makes no sense - wish I could downvote

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