Comment on It's your fault my laptop knows where I am

merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• phaedrus@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And just like robots.txt, I'm sure they will totally honor this in perpetuity

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• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I recall this being announced a decade or more ago. At the time, I wasn’t so jaded and was more surprised than anything else that it was opt-out rather than opt-in.

  Now I’m more annoyed than surprised.

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And remember: this won’t work with “hidden” SSIDs.

  From what I recall hidden SSIDs will always be used for location services.

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  • rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That isn’t great.

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  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I thought hidden SSIDs aren’t discoverable :(

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    • chaospatterns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Every WiFi router and network has something called an SSID and a BSSID. The SSID is the friendly name that you use to show off your puns to your neighbors. The BSSID is a 6 byte MAC address. All devices use the BSSID when connecting and communicating.

      With a non hidden SSID, your router broadcasts the SSID and BSSID.

      The BSSID is actually is static and doesn’t change and it’s what is actually used for geo location.

      When it’s hidden, it doesn’t send the SSID out, but sends out packets with the BSSID. Clients then scream out to the void “anybody know the SSID ‘My Secret SSID??’” Then it’ll respond.

      So basically hidden networks still send out the unique identifying address and then when you take your phone with you, you’re just telling everybody what your home WiFi is called.

      Hidden SSIDs are not that useful.

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      • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Would’ve been cool if the APs would rotate the mac address

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• TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Microsoft has an additional requirement where “_optout” has to be somewhere in the SSID (not necessarily at the end). This was detailed in a now deleted support post.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So now my SSID has to be myname_nomap_optout_dontscan_ffswhy_fuckoffanddie?

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    • TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s already my SSID, please don’t use it too

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• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I actually had to do that with my phone’s hotspot name because I used to play Pokemon Go on a tablet which was Wi-Fi tethered to the phone. Before I renamed it to opt out, the game would randomly jump me to wherever the network had last been scanned any time the tablet’s GPS got too flaky.

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