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European Commission has a "Wifi4EU" initative, provides 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. (slrpnk.net)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25779751

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)

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[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ahh yes, border free travel.. wait a minute, why are the Austrian police on the border here? Wait a minute, why are they stopping us..

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[-] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

More Europeans than ever can watch the live-streamed genocide that we've been arming and encouraging!

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

And have to walk on eggshells if they protest against it or get arrested for 'supporting terrorism'.

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[-] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So, if I live in the EU, what's stopping me from cancelling my home plan and making the wifi experience worse for everyone?

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Limiting the bandwidth use of individual devices is pretty easy, and basically standard procedure for public networks. Even cheap consumer routers that come with ISP subscriptions can do that.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago

Well I don't know if that's a good use of EU money. I'd rather see investments in large and difficult infrastructure, rail, software, datacenters, industrial sectors we're currently lacking, grid investments - stuff like that.

End user internet access is more like thousands of small decentralised projects. The coordination might make it easier to use compared to if everyone did their own free wifi project, but that's such a small benefit...

[-] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As always, it's not like both aren't possible. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of railway projects ongoing at the same time, to only quote one of your examples.

A government can take care of more than one issue at a time, luckily.

It may be a small benefit for you (I assume you are german based on your server), but not every european country or citizen has the same access to internet. This is a good initiative, but obviously not primarily intended for the richer citizens/countries of the union.

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