Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
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Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
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Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#2How about simply "fuck off Google". We shouldn't have to do that and then reconfigure our piles of client devices.
Also isn't it about as useful as the do not track header? What about other vendors mapping it and data sense etc?
I moan on behalf of others as my network is ethernet due to things like this.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#3Why should I have to ruin my naming standard for them? Personally I don't mind them mapping my SSID.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#4Is there something that makes this newly relevant? To be honest, I don't really understand the objection to mapping SSIDs.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#5How about simply "fuck off Google". We shouldn't have to do that and then reconfigure our piles of client devices. Also isn't it about as useful as the do not track header? What about other vendors mapping it and data sense etc? I moan on behalf of others as my network is ethernet due to things like this.
Did you even read what this does? It's used to aid geopositioning. No data from the network is logged, other than its SSID/MAC address and its approximate location.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#6Anyone know a way to query the API for your BSSID and see if you're in their database, or do they just respond to queries with a location rather than per-network confirmations?
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#7How about simply "fuck off Google". We shouldn't have to do that and then reconfigure our piles of client devices. Also isn't it about as useful as the do not track header? What about other vendors mapping it and data sense etc? I moan on behalf of others as my network is ethernet due to things like this.
Did you even read what this does? It's used to aid geopositioning. No data from the network is logged, other than its SSID/MAC address and its approximate location.
Yes I understand it entirely.
There are enough AP's around me for Apple Maps to know if I'm in bed or having a poo. You can see the marker move.
More services like this are bad.
They already know who I am.
What could possibly go wrong?
Edit: when I say more services are bad like this I mean we should be opt-in for both collection and usage rather than opt out.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#8How about you only opt-in people who add "_map" to their SSID?
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#9Shouldn't it be the other way around? Opt-in instead of Opt-out: Append "_map" to your AP's SSID! Idiots.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#10This post is already a few years old:
Posted: Monday, November 14, 2011