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Re:Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers ... by heavyset_go on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:37PM (#21465530)
Had this alias for years and it still works:

    alias random-mac='openssl rand -hex 6 | sed '\''s/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'\'' | xargs sudo ifconfig en0 ether'
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Re:Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers ... by Exuma on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @06:18PM (#21468650)
Awesome, so does that change the permanent mac address that comes with the laptop, and it is forever gone? Or does it somehow "reset" when you restart, and you rerun this command multiple times
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Re:Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers ... by heavyset_go on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:46PM (#21469931)
It resets when you turn the NIC on and off, I believe.
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