It's your fault my laptop knows where I am

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• Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Very interesting!

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t do shit! I just used those laptops at funerals where the body flops out of the coffin!

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• kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “It’s associated with “Location Services” on most devices, meaning that you cannot opt out of your phone reporting the locations of surrounding Wi-Fi devices without turning off your phone’s ability to obtain its location entirely.”

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• merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  related : support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632?hl=en

  How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?

  To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with “_nomap.” For example, if your SSID is “12345,” you would change it to “12345_nomap.”

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  • TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So now my SSID has to be myname_nomap_optout_dontscan_ffswhy_fuckoffanddie?

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • phaedrus@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    /s

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  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought hidden SSIDs aren’t discoverable :(

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    • rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That isn’t great.

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