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How to opt out of having your wi-fi access point used for big tech mapping services
(support.google.com)
State of affairs for technology seem bad? But what is being done to change it? And what could be done by you so it changes at least for yourself?
A community to talk about the reversal of enshittification, be it news, actions that could be done, etc.
A person that sees no solution has no reason to keep going.
Some communities related to the scope to check too:
"why should I change my name, he's the one who sucks?!?"(Office Space)
Why are we celebrating having to manually change our device names so that we aren't involuntarily gobbled up for surveillance? It should of course be opt-in. Fuck clapping for this
But while things are this opt-out-of-surveillance way, I wanted to post this so people can 1) know the option to opt-out exists, and 2) do so. I did not know this was happening and so it is useful to me to figure out how to resist the surveillance, at least for a little while. It's not a perfect world, but this community's spirit is about helping us to fix it, even with imperfect solutions that we should not have to make in the first place. I am not posting this to give these big corps flowers, but to help the little clueless guy like myself who did not know this was going on.
Imo, both immediate and future solutions are needed. Immediate ones like what's proposed in the post (Iirc there's a saying for this, "live today so you can fight tomorrow"), and future ones like seeking awareness of people, consequences for the companies pushing these problems, and if needed, improvement on laws.