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I noticed this a couple days back at Home Depot, of all places. Was looking up the locations of stuff I needed to pick up via their website while sitting out in
by trafficante 4y ago
I noticed this a couple days back at Home Depot, of all places. Was looking up the locations of stuff I needed to pick up via their website while sitting out in the parking lot and my iPhone kept switching off 5g to hop on some single bar wifi that I couldn’t delete or deselect auto-join.
Eventually just turned off wifi and the problem was “solved” but man this is going to be annoying if it starts happening at the grocery store or something.
- newZWhoDis 4y agoI noticed this because a condo has neighbors nearby with routers blasting said hotspot, so now you’re not even safe in your own home.
- zrobotics 4y agoA condo-sized Faraday cage would solve that problem...
- toomuchtodo 4y agoThey have faraday paint if you’re so inclined.
- newZWhoDis 4y agoYC24 here I come
- trafficante 4y agoOh god no. I live in one of those “techbaby’s first econobox” neighborhoods where you can shake hands with your neighbors if both of you lean out the window a smidge. I have never had so much trouble with network radio interference as I do here, so I can only imagine the fresh hell when one of my neighbors lights up one of these things. There’s already a “stop hitting yourself” scenario going on with a guy blasting multiple competing 160mhz width APs for some reason. Thank god for Wifi 6E
- grogenaut 4y agotinfoil hat but frys used to seem to fuck with competitor websites on their in building wifi. amazon would never work. At last 2 times I had to go outside to get cell coverage and then pull up the amazon price to show them to get a price match. nothing really stopping home depot or whomever from shoving a pi-hole in front of competitor sites either.
- lxgr 4y agoI‘m generally not a big fan of most consumer VPNs, but this is one scenario where they can really help.
- josephcsible 4y ago> nothing really stopping home depot or whomever from shoving a pi-hole in front of competitor sites either. And this is why people who say "DNS-over-HTTPS is bad since it bypasses Pi-hole!" are wrong.
- zamnos 4y agoA pi-hole that null roots traffic? No, unfettered by TLS certificates and morals, the competitors site would show the item as being out of stock and drastically more expensive, and the store's closing early today.
- grogenaut 4y agoI also think they adjusted prices to the stores list price not the on the web price for fry's but I only called them on it once. The other time it was in a TV and I just haggled and walked and they chased me down to the parking lot to say yes
- jacooper 4y agoI mean blocking 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 should be enough.
- kxrm 4y agoI think the argument is about choice, not whether this tech should exist. When a device or app forces DNS-over-HTTPS it does so to take away my choice.
- Fatnino 4y agoOn Android with tmo if I go near a home depot my phone will hop on their wiri and get a little R next to the wifi signal icon. This R doesn't go away even after I go home and get on my home wifi. Can only get rid of it by rebooting the phone.
- meshaneian 4y agoR for reboot /s
- mihaaly 4y agoIf some carrier representatives reads this they may come to the conclusion that it is time disabling wifi switch off remotely too!