The intative promises to be privacy-friendly with no tracking. Stating:
Your privacy is important. The WiFi4EU app ensures a private online experience with no tracking or data collection. Simply connect and enjoy free public Wi-Fi without concerns.
Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/wifi4eu-citizens
Will be interesting to see how this spans and plays out in reality. Looks promising too, did a quick scan of their builtin permissions and trackers and looks good too. (Scanning tool is called Exodus)
Does the average browser say that? Mine does, but I tweak it, so I might have enabled it. It explicitly has that “HTTPS Only” Firefox feature. Just thinking of, like, folks that just use as is. Me mum ain’t tweaking none of that on her own, I don’t think.
So a VPN is good for privacy, then. What about DNS? I use NextDNS, with the relevant option on that system or app. Given DNS over HTTPS (DoH), I presume that’s private as well, innit? Should the average person have a DNS? What about a VPN? Any advantages? E.g., should I get people to use one?
Yeah, I reckon the device could be leaking known WiFi, maybe in an attempt to find and connect to a known one. Funny that my device got picked in the presentation, too. I guess mine was interesting, in that the WiFi name indicated something interesting, rather than just a random name