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Individual Climate Action

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Discuss actions that we can directly take as individuals to reduce environmental harm.

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Suffix your SSID with _optout_nomap (self.climate_action_individual)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by activistPnk to c/climate_action_individual
 

Apple and Google are no friends of environmentalists, in part because:

  • Apple demonstrates contempt for #rightToRepair.
  • Google uses AI to help Total Energy find new places to drill for oil.

Including “_optout” in your SSID expresses your non-consent for Apple to keep track of your wi-fi access point. Including “_nomap” in your SSID expresses your non-consent for Google to keep track of your wi-fi access point for streetmap purposes. I believe “_nomap” must be at the very end, but Apple supposedly treats “_optout” appearing at the end OR penultimate position in order to not force mutual exclusivity with Google’s string.

Anything we can do to avoid feeding Google and Apple are a form of individual climate action -- however minuscule in effect.

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[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You got any resources online that back this up? This feels like one of those Facebook posts stating that you don't consent to Facebook reading your data...

[–] activistPnk -3 points 9 months ago

I read about it a long time ago. I didn’t keep track of sources.