Apple and Google are no friends of environmentalists, in part because:
- Apple demonstrates contempt for #rightToRepair.
- Google uses AI to help Total Energy find new places to drill for oil.
Including “_optout” in your SSID expresses your non-consent for Apple to keep track of your wi-fi access point. Including “_nomap” in your SSID expresses your non-consent for Google to keep track of your wi-fi access point for streetmap purposes. I believe “_nomap” must be at the very end, but Apple supposedly treats “_optout” appearing at the end OR penultimate position in order to not force mutual exclusivity with Google’s string.
Anything we can do to avoid feeding Google and Apple are a form of individual climate action – however minuscule in effect.
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I didn’t know about the Apple one, but ever since I found out that Google was mapping Wi-Fi networks (many many moons ago), it has infuriated me that this is opt-out rather than opt-in.