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Re:The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet by jayalpha on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @09:23AM (#18921047)
By appending ‘_nomap’ to the end of your Wi-Fi hotspots you could opt out of all Wi-Fi network tracking and means your hotspot will not be used for improving location fixes on mobile devices.

(only honored by google, other OSs need different approaches)

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Re:The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet by jasonjayr on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @09:43AM (#18921211)
This is a terrible standard, unfortunately. This makes branded or "clever" SSID's difficult and awkward. (And Microsoft has a different standard too ...)

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/windows-10-shares-your-w...

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