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Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance

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Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance

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Mac address randomization is a must if your wifi is on in public (you don't even need to connect anywhere to be fingerprinted and tracked). Also use cookie self-destruct plugins for your browser.

Possible on Android and without root?

Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance

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Mac address randomization is a must if your wifi is on in public (you don't even need to connect anywhere to be fingerprinted and tracked). Also use cookie self-destruct plugins for your browser.

MAC address randomisation has been proven to be essentially useless: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02874v1

Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance

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Mac address randomization is a must if your wifi is on in public (you don't even need to connect anywhere to be fingerprinted and tracked). Also use cookie self-destruct plugins for your browser.

MAC address randomisation has been proven to be essentially useless: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02874v1

Having read just the abstract is seems that current implementations of Mac address randomisation is essentially useless rather the Mac address randomisation itself.

Hopefully in the future the implementation will improve. Until then WiFi is off.

Re: Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance

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Mac address randomization is a must if your wifi is on in public (you don't even need to connect anywhere to be fingerprinted and tracked). Also use cookie self-destruct plugins for your browser.

Possible on Android and without root?

As of iOS 8 and Android 5.0 the operating systems should do it automatically.
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