> The proper course of action in this case is to use your 4G/5G connection and not to connect to shady networks you don't trust. Sadly, there are carriers on t

> The proper course of action in this case is to use your 4G/5G connection and not to connect to shady networks you don't trust. Sadly, there are carriers on this planet who think it's a good idea to charge ridiculous prices for mobile data (Germany) or to block hotspot functionality unless you pay up (US, see [1] for the technical background - both Apple and Google are complicit). In a world where politicians would care about their people, there would be no need for wifi hotspots to exist in the first place. Additionally, there are certain advertising brokers such as utiq that cooperate with major phone networks to provide detailed tracking, so they and advertisers know pretty precisely who you are just because you tethered your laptop to your phone. And finally, you can't trust your phone ISP either - Verizon got caught red-handed injecting tracking "supercookies" into their customers' traffic [2], thank God at least that vector got closed with everyone and their dog going HTTPS. In general: anything involving residential ISPs is rife with scams. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20460438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20460438 [2] http://webpolicy.org/2014/10/24/how-verizons-advertising-header-works/ http://webpolicy.org/2014/10/24/how-verizons-advertising-hea...