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zamojski / TowerCollector

The OpenCellID and MLS contributor's app.
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People are looking for the anonymous contributions Mozilla button #154

Closed jidanni closed 2 years ago

jidanni commented 2 years ago

In the Preferences there are settings for anonymous opencellD contributions. But there are no settings for anonymous Mozilla contributions. Therefore there should be a slider button for anonymous Mozilla contributions. But it should be locked in the ON position. With an explanation that Mozilla only allows anonymous contributions.

zamojski commented 2 years ago

Who are the people you mention? It's like this for years and nobody even asked about our so far.

jidanni commented 2 years ago

Well it looks like:

  1. "We can register our contributions under our own name at Mozilla, but TowerCollector just takes the easy way, tossing them to Mozilla anonymously. Causing us to not be able to look them up later on Mozilla."

When in fact the truth (still?) is:

  1. "Mozilla doesn't have a way to send an ID along with contributions."

I'm just saying looking in Preferences, it appears (1) is the true. So there should be some mention there in Preferences that that is not the case.

zamojski commented 2 years ago

The "old" leaderboard switched into "new" in 2016, the "new" leaderboard retired around 2018. https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Location

The leaderboard is no longer available: https://location-leaderboard.services.mozilla.com

The API Keys are intended to be used by application developer, so the only way is to contribute anonymously. I don't see a reason to highlight this.