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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's pretend someone didn't know how to do that on an android. How would you explain it to them?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On android when you go to the wifi settings you're currently connected to there should be a setting for randomizing mac address per connection or per network. If you change it to per connection, once you disconnect and reconnect your mac address should change. On per network, it will randomly generate the mac address for the first connection and keep that address for that wifi forever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Excellent explanation, thank you. Never knew what that difference was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, recently I was on school wifi and it kept bothering me to log in and figured I needed to switch to per network or it would bother me everytime to sign into the captive portal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for asking the question! I've never needed to know it, and I've done enough android tinkering that I'm fairly sure I could find it quite easily if needed, but I enjoy my social media being peppered with bits of learning wherever possible. I'm a big fan of ambient curiosity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think per connection is a GrapheneOS thing unless I'm wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On stock (Pixel) Android, if you enable Developer Options, there is a setting under Networking called "Wi-Fi non-persistent MAC randomization" that randomizes the MAC per connection for networks that have randomization enabled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Samsung's OneUI does this by default for all connections .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Graphene just changed it to be enabled by default

But maybe they hat this feature earlier than AOSP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, on Android 12 I can only choose between "randomized MAC" and "phone MAC". Doesn't specify if it's randomized per network or connection, but I'd guess it's per network.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just google it you dumb piece of shit - Stack overflow user

Marked as duplicate

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I figured it out and got free food as a bonus!!!

Doesn't share solution