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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's per-network, not per-connection. Though that option does exist but is hidden away under developer settings.

[-] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh you mean like per TCP connection?

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's not at the packet level - by default on gOS (and a dev option on stock pixels), every time you connect to a network, even ones you have connected to prior, you get a new random MAC. The standard aosp/pixels do one random but persistent MAC randomization. This only helps marginally from a privacy standpoint. Per-connection makes this data point useless, thereby increasing privacy.

this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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