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Comment by crimsonnoodle58 | Hacker News Reader

Yep. My WiFi has had _optout_nomap ever since it was introduced. People always ask me why and I've never seen another SSID with it included.

Come over to my place and we can possibly be the first people ever to bond over their home wifi SSIDs ;)

My Unifi setup has whitelisted devices. Everything else is completely crippled on the WiFi.

I’m happy for how easy it is to do this.

Google maps doesn't need to be able to connect to your wifi in order to use it for location detection. i.e. You still need to add _nomap to the ssid.

Google maps cars go around scanning WiFi SSIDs so they can map them to geolocations.

I really miss the days when people put time and thought in to their SSIDs instead of using the defaults

There's a certain comfort, and security, from the anonymity afforded by randomly generated SSIDs.

On of my neighbors SSID used to be some bad words towards people working in IT. I think he got some bad experience with his ISP support.

Mine is "go fuck yourself" so whenever anyone asks what my wifi is, it results in a hilarious exchange.

And the password is either "figure it out for yourself", "check the packaging", "try 123456 backwards", or "I don't know"?

Thanks for the brilliant ideas!

My parents were 'CIA moble survalance unit'.

I saw a _nomap once! Mentioned it to those around me and nobody knew what it was of course. Must admit I didn't know of optout until now either