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> I’m incredibly annoyed that phones don’t report themselves with randomized Mac addresses. WiFi tracking is pervasive. You've got it backwards. The phone isn'
by kllrnohj 8y ago
> I’m incredibly annoyed that phones don’t report themselves with randomized Mac addresses. WiFi tracking is pervasive.
You've got it backwards. The phone isn't being tracked, the phone is the one doing the tracking. The phone is looking at all the wifi APs it can see and then looking those up in a database.
Nobody sees the phone's MAC address. It isn't broadcasting anything at all.
- forrestthewoods 8y agoPhone probes contain their MAC address. Although the internet tells me iOS 8 did add randomization.