• Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    In the EU they already had a complaint, because it violates GDPR, but in any case I would never use a public WiFi without a VPN, and even less in places with these conditions, there is also free WiFi in some Rstaurants (even in most McDonalds), public Libraries and others. Fuck surveillance advertising

    • justcoding_de@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Agreed. My iPhone connects to my home VPN via Wireguard as soon as I leave my home WiFi. Has the added benefit of pihole ad filtering everywhere.

        • lud@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          I used to before but my family was extremely bothered that they couldn't click on ad links. If I remember correctly, it's pretty easy to set up if you want to just try it.

        • justcoding_de@programming.dev
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          1 year ago

          Obviously the first ad links in google don’t work any more, which drives the wife crazy ;-) Also nowadays more and more websites complain about me using an adblocker.

          But technically, not really any problems at all.

    • XTornado@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I have seen it on Europe... maybe there was some way to circumvent it hidden away, not sure. But you could type a random email and that's it, like they don't send anything to confirm the email or anything once you submit you have access to internet.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Better to send a disposable mail, where yo can receive the log data before it expired.

        eg

        • https://maildrop.cc
        • https://altmails.com
        • https://www.disposablemail.com
        • https://www.lazyinbox.com/#/
        • https://www.guerrillamail.com

        etc

    • Resolved3874@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      Went to a Walmart the other day and my phone automatically connected to a wifi that was apparently hosted by my cell carrier. Immediately turned on my VPN because wtf. I disconnected at first then realized I didn't have any service at all which was probably why it existed. Thankfully didn't need to log in but that's why I have Firefox relay.