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Re:Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser usi... by pndy on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:07PM (#36715234)
That reminded me that almost 10 years ago ghacks [1] instructed people to add _nomap to their Wifi networks name to avoid these being harvested by Google and Mozilla. I wonder if that ever worked or still does and if companies stopped collecting that information.

[1] - https://www.ghacks.net/2014/10/29/add-_nomap-to-your-routers...

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Re:Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser usi... by TheNewsIsHere on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:49PM (#36719276)
Officially this is still supported. With that said, there have in past years been data sanitizing failures which get them mapped anyway. Google caught a little flack for that several years ago.
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