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Serious question: are internet cafes still a thing? Admittedly this is from a small sample of Seattle-area coffee shops but most of my experiences with non-hom
by MikeTheGreat 5y ago
Serious question: are internet cafes still a thing?
Admittedly this is from a small sample of Seattle-area coffee shops but most of my experiences with non-home non-work WiFi is at coffee shops that provide the WiFi but expect you to bring your own device (laptop, phone, etc).
Is it still common to go someplace and rent time on a computer provided by the owner (i.e., at an internet cafe?)
- joe_the_user 5y agoI don't think places you can rent machines are common (except libraries as noted but these may require ID) but the steps "buy machine with cash, take machine to anonymous cafe outside your area and get wifi password, upload info" still seem reasonably secure. You can throw the machine off a bridge later if you're paranoid - and work hard at sanitizing your info while you're at it.
- AlexCoventry 5y agoCan you just spoof your MAC address instead of buying a new machine?
- kyleee 5y agopossibly but will you bet jail time on it?
- dtx1 5y agoHere in Germany there are still a lot of them around. Though any rando WiFi hotspot would propably do the trick
- thfuran 5y agoYou can do it for free at a library.
- senectus1 5y ago>Serious question: are internet cafes still a thing? I live in a capital city and am aware of at least three of these still kicking around.
- wubbert 5y ago>are internet cafes still a thing? I don't know about internet cafes specifically, but pretty much all cafes have internet these days.