@nutomic@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agoGoogle will determine and store the location of any Wi-Fi access point whose SSID (name) does not end with "_nomap".support.google.commessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
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minus-square@beansniffer@lemmy.mllinkfedilink0•edit-22 years ago_optout is the SSID suffex to block mapping by Microsoft (which includes Bing maps cars) and can be placed anywhere in the SSID See comments below about further information about _optout. It might be unnecessary. _nomap is the SSID suffex to block mapping by Google (which includes streetview cars) and must be placed at the END of the SSID To have what should be the default amount of privacy for SSID, one must have an SSID like this: SSIDNAME_optout_nomap See comments below about further information about _optout. It might be unnecessary. This is ridiculous and shameful upon the companies that track every little fucking thing about our lives.
_optout is the SSID suffex to block mapping by Microsoft (which includes Bing maps cars) and can be placed anywhere in the SSIDSee comments below about further information about _optout. It might be unnecessary.
_nomap is the SSID suffex to block mapping by Google (which includes streetview cars) and must be placed at the END of the SSID
To have what should be the default amount of privacy for SSID, one must have an SSID like this: SSIDNAME_optout_nomap
See comments below about further information about _optout. It might be unnecessary.
This is ridiculous and shameful upon the companies that track every little fucking thing about our lives.