cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/51680303 where I suggest you check for more discussion on the topic.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/51680197
Append “
_nomap” to the end of your SSIDs to instruct Google not to use your wi-fi access point for their mapping services.To do the same for Apple, add “
_optout” to the end of your SSIDs¹.To boycott both, the rumor is that Google’s “
_nomap” must be last, but Apple’s “_optout” flag must be in the penultimate position if and only if Google’s token is at the end. So you might have an SSID like “boycottCloudflare_optout_nomap” to boycott the baddies, for example. But note that “boycottCloudflare” is merely symbolic, to raise awareness of the web’s most harmful enshitifier.¹ sorry to say I have no reference to cite for the Apple rules. It’s just a rumor.
update
The Apple opt-out procedure has apparently changed to align with Google. Someone refers to this page for Apple.
update 2
Mapquest is suddenly gaining popularity.
“why should I change my name, he’s the one who sucks?!?”(Office Space)
Why are we celebrating having to manually change our device names so that we aren’t involuntarily gobbled up for surveillance? It should of course be opt-in. Fuck clapping for this
But while things are this opt-out-of-surveillance way, I wanted to post this so people can 1) know the option to opt-out exists, and 2) do so. I did not know this was happening and so it is useful to me to figure out how to resist the surveillance, at least for a little while. It’s not a perfect world, but this community’s spirit is about helping us to fix it, even with imperfect solutions that we should not have to make in the first place. I am not posting this to give these big corps flowers, but to help the little clueless guy like myself who did not know this was going on.
Imo, both immediate and future solutions are needed. Immediate ones like what’s proposed in the post (Iirc there’s a saying for this, “live today so you can fight tomorrow”), and future ones like seeking awareness of people, consequences for the companies pushing these problems, and if needed, improvement on laws.