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Just seen that adding _optout_nomap ... to the end of your wireless SSID may prevent Google and Microsoft from including your ssid in public records.

MAY prevent?

I clean boot every reboot Flash, so see the Google 'click to accept' button text every time I start chrome after a reboot.

Google uses cookies and other data ...

As has occurred in the past, things like 'clear cookies/history' etc MAY not actually do so, if google opines it can monetise such inaction (which more often that not is the case).

Conceptually when informed that they should give users the right to be excluded - likely they'll work around that with some kind of technicality and implement just a illusion of having actually provided a opt out.

So yes ... 'MAY'.

The following link may provide a couple details to rufwoof's post: https://searchengineland.com/google-ann ... out-101134

rufwoof wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 6:57 amthings like 'clear cookies/history' etc MAY not actually do so,

Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-google.html

I bet it MAY NOT

International law has "made it clear that an open and secure internet should be counted among the prerequisites for the enjoyment of freedom"

Google IMO is in clear breach of such rights and as such should be heavily penalised, if not outright banned. The US has gone to great lengths to protect Google in the past, but now is challenging its 'monopoly'. If the US doesn't reign it in, it will be on a trajectory where others will.

Intrusive monitoring is paramount to imprisonment within a 'open prison'.

Most businesses web sites don't need to store cookies and would be well placed in removing the enforcement of visitors having to accept them - or be at risk of losing potential customers. Of course if they do still opt to use cookies, then they are equally obliged to clearly declare such actions.

People don’t realize just how much they’re being tracked online, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg — but he’s confident that once they learn how much tech companies like Google and Facebook are quietly slurping up their private data, they will demand a change.

“They’re getting purchase history, location history, browsing history, search history,” Weinberg said

... and they retain that ... forever. Sufficient capture to ultimately know more about you than even yourself.

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While at it I would also change the name of the router, THEN add the nomap. Just a security thought.

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