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I use a cellular connection for my internet, but my apartment building is wired with Xfinity, and probably 90% of people use it.

Naturally, there is no way for me to opt out of this.

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Does your apartment lease require that you use Comcast's hardware? When I signed up for Xfinity years ago I wanted to use my own hardware (NetGear cable modem, Buffalo Airstation with DD-WRT). I forget now whether I had to walk through the activation over the phone with a tech - I vaguely recall having to provide some information about the modem, which was one of the models listed as supported on their use-your-own-hardware web page - but the whole thing was easy.

Other people have mentioned that not using Comcast's stuff means that certain features won't be available, but I don't care. I don't have huge bandwidth needs, for instance.

I believe the person you are replying to does not use comcast, but is saying they cant' opt out of this spying due to their neighbors using comcast.

Are you in California? I'd contend there's a CCPA issue there. "I live at X address, and demand that you not collect my movement information from any of your equipment at this address or others."

Time to make your apartment a faraday cage!

RF-blocking paint exists.

And contrary to popular belief, neither it nor a faraday cage blocks RF. They attenuate it, to varying degrees.

There is still the question of how much the attenuation is and if it can prevent the detection. There is also the issue if you want to receive other radio signals such as AM radio, FM radio, amateur radio, etc.

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