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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 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.

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tinfoil 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.

I‘m generally not a big fan of most consumer VPNs, but this is one scenario where they can really help.

> 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.

I mean blocking 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 should be enough.

A 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.

I 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.

The owner of a device not being able to change whether or not it uses DoH is definitely bad. But a lot of people say DoH is bad even when the owner can easily turn it off.

I noticed this because a condo has neighbors nearby with routers blasting said hotspot, so now you’re not even safe in your own home.

A condo-sized Faraday cage would solve that problem...

They have faraday paint if you’re so inclined.

What's old is new again!

Or you could coat all your walls in aluminum foil...

YC24 here I come

Oh 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

On 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.

R for reboot /s

If some carrier representatives reads this they may come to the conclusion that it is time disabling wifi switch off remotely too!

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