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n/nomap.md: add practical reasons such as relocating/moving APs
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## Why?
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Privacy. WiGLE.net may point your home directly just by entering the SSID and
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who knows how many similar services there are. While I have been thinking of
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this since 2015, there is at least one case where this has been used in 2018:
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**For privacy.** WiGLE.net may point your home directly just by entering the
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SSID and who knows how many similar services there are. While I have been
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thinking of this since 2015, there is at least one case where this has been used
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in 2018:
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- [Christian Haschek: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet](https://blog.haschek.at/2018/the-curious-case-of-the-RasPi-in-our-network.html)
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@ -76,6 +77,20 @@ and Gaza.
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- [KrebsOnSecurity: Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-doubles-as-an-apple-airtag/)
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**For practical reasons.** If you have ever _moved_ taking your WiFi access
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point with you, you may have noticed Google/Apple Maps and all locating you to
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your _old home_, which may be annoying with route planner apps and similar.
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To fix this, you can either append `_nomap` to your SSID to remove it from the
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positioning process, try going outside with maps open and hoping it will update
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your location or wait patiently for the location services to realize your move.
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Another occassionally happening event is the _WiFi AP moving_ by itself.
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Location services may blocklist moving access points without static location, or
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you may find that on the move you always locate to a home point, while it would
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be more useful to just `_nomap` so other location sources would be used
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immediately.
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## `_optout`
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Legacy from 2015-2016. Used to be part of Microsoft WiFi Sense that shared WiFi
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