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Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Please add _nomap to the end of your SSID (the name of your wifi network) if you don't want Google to use it in their tracking mechanisms.

Please add _optout anywhere in your SSID if you don't want Microsoft to use it in their tracking mechanisms.

If your SSID is Network change it to Network_optout_nomap

Ridiculous as fuck, but that's what they came up with. I have no idea what other services use to block their Wifi collectors, but these 2 are very prominent anyway.