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Wondering if the following feature is enabled by default: "Wi-Fi Assistant Auto-connects you to high quality open WiFi and secures your connection with a VPN
by sarnowski 9y ago
Wondering if the following feature is enabled by default:
"Wi-Fi Assistant
Auto-connects you to high quality open WiFi and secures your connection with a VPN back to Google."
I really do not want to tunnel my whole traffic through Google's servers.
- DiabloD3 9y agoIt's already available on older Androids (my stock Android 6 Nexus 5 has it). It asks to enable it on a per Wifi basis, if it detects any traffic is being mitm mangled, and you have to agree to enabling it for that Wifi.
- kevincox 9y agoI don't know if it is on by default but if enabled it will connect to "High Quality" open networks. If it does this it connects the VPN. So the VPN is "required" by this feature but you can turn it off globally, or manually connect to networks where you don't want to use the VPN.
- nomel 9y agoDoesn't this violate the computer fraud and abuse act, for unauthorized accessing to a networks without permission? More specifically, piggybacking [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking