inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoMicrosoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaintwww.windowslatest.comexternal-linkmessage-square223linkfedilinkarrow-up1907arrow-down19cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comprivacy@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.mlprivacy@programming.devprivacy@lemmy.capcmasterrace@zerobytes.monster
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minus-squareemergencyfood@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·2 days agoBut why? Mobile networks are very fast nowadays. And how many homes still have routers?
minus-squareAppleMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-213 hours agofast ≠ widespread or consistent. mobile data tends to have excruciatingly low upload speeds (at least in my region)
minus-squareemergencyfood@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoAh, then it makes sense.
minus-squareemergencyfood@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI would have used WiFi on my phone perhaps two or three times in the last year. My home does have a router, because we’re dinos, but most new houses don’t since everyone has a smartphone anyway.
But why? Mobile networks are very fast nowadays. And how many homes still have routers?
fast ≠ widespread or consistent. mobile data tends to have excruciatingly low upload speeds (at least in my region)
Ah, then it makes sense.
…are you joking?
I would have used WiFi on my phone perhaps two or three times in the last year. My home does have a router, because we’re dinos, but most new houses don’t since everyone has a smartphone anyway.