Mozilla ta sanar da yanke shawarar rufe aikin MLS (Mozilla Location Service), wanda tun 2013 ke haɓaka sabis na jama'a don ƙayyade wurin yanki dangane da bayanan sanannun wuraren shiga Wi-Fi (daure zuwa BSSID/MAC), tashoshin tushe na masu aiki da wayar hannu (daure zuwa Cell-ID) da adiresoshin IP da aka bayar ga mai biyan kuɗi (GeoIP). Sabis ɗin ya ba da damar tantance kusan wurin taswira ba tare da amfani da tsarin kewayawa tauraron dan adam kamar GPS da GLONASS ba.
Tun daga shekara ta 2019, an iyakance damar sabis ɗin saboda zargin keta haƙƙin mallaka ta Skyhook Holdings da kuma ƙarshen wata yarjejeniya ta waje, wanda Mozilla ta sanya iyakacin kiran API dubu 100 a kowace rana don ayyukan kasuwanci. Hane-hane da aka gabatar ya haifar da kin aikin Sailfish don amfani da MLS da kuma asarar sha'awar saka hannun jari na MLS a idanun Mozilla. A lokaci guda, MLS ya ci gaba da yin amfani da shi a cikin aikin microG kuma a cikin madadin firmwares na Android da yawa maimakon sabis na Wurin Yanar Gizo na Google.
Ci gaba da yanayin ƙasa a daidaitattun wurin MLS tare da rashin sha'awar ƙara saka hannun jari ko farfado da shirin MozStumbler an bayyana shi a matsayin dalilin rugujewar aikin. An cika ma'ajin bayanai tare da daidaitawa da ke da alaƙa da tashoshin tushe da cibiyoyin sadarwar Wi-Fi godiya ga ayyukan masu sha'awar da suka shigar da aikace-aikacen hannu na MozStumbler akan wayoyin hannu na su.
An haɗa aikace-aikacen MozStumbler da sabis na tuntuɓe, wanda ke cikin tsohuwar Firefox don Android har zuwa nau'in 69, wanda aka maye gurbinsa a cikin 2020 da sabon bugu na wayar hannu, wanda aka haɓaka ƙarƙashin lambar sunan Fenix. A farkon 2021, an dakatar da haɓakar MozStumbler kuma ba a taɓa daidaita aikace-aikacen don Android 10 da sabbin nau'ikan dandamali ba. A halin yanzu, kwararar sabbin bayanai a cikin rumbun adana bayanai na MLS ya kusan tsayawa kuma dacewa da bayanan ya bar abin da ake so.
Ana gabatar da tsari mai zuwa don kashe sabis ɗin a hankali:
- Daga ranar 13 ga Maris, an daina ba da sabbin maɓallan samun damar API.
- A ranar 27 ga Maris, za a dakatar da karɓar buƙatun bayanan POST ta hanyar API, kuma za a dakatar da buga sabbin juji don fitarwa zuwa wasu tsarin.
- A ranar 10 ga Afrilu, za a share duk juji na bayanan da aka buga a baya kuma ba za a sami damar saukewa ba.
- A ranar 12 ga Yuni, za a cire duk maɓallan shiga API, ban da maɓallan da aka yi amfani da su a ayyukan Mozilla.
- A ranar 31 ga Yuli, za a canja wurin ma'ajiyar tare da lambar dandamali zuwa GitHub a yanayin adana kayan tarihi. Ga waɗanda suke son farfado da sabis ɗin kuma su kula da su da kansu, lambar tushe ta dandalin Mozilla Ichnaea, wacce ke ƙarƙashin MLS, za ta kasance a ƙarƙashin lasisin Apache 2.0.
source: budenet.ru