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Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers and trackers

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Re: Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers and trackers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC (this is old and might have been wrong in the first place) iOS randomizes when it’s searching for networks but not when it’s connected to one.

It’s not a bad idea. A randomized IP address at each connection would break many things on quite a few networks (IP-MAC static assignments, for instance).

There are other options, like generating a Mac based off the real Mac and the ssid or bssid.

Re: Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers and trackers

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Linux lets you reassign your own MAC. There's no reason to use the same one twice in public! :)

Windows does as well! Finally. And will change everytime you use WiFi. Just in the setting.

Might have to be set per wifi network...

IE - https://winaero.com/blog/enable-random-mac-address-in-window...

Re: Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers and trackers

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post #11

Milan Airports answered that they have submitted the issue to the "Information technology staff" source: https://twitter.com/pimterry/status/1192038174408753152?s=20

Update - apparently they've now fixed this: https://twitter.com/MiAirports/status/1192433053743927296
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