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A sufficient fix is not letting your wifi devices connect to your neighbor's network so their router can detect you walking between it and them.
my devices don't, but unless I misunderstood it it does not matter whether you are connected to the neighbor's router
Wifi tracking uses measurements of the interference caused when objects pass between connected devices and a router. For your neighbors to track your movements their router would have to be connected to a device in your house, or maybe in the other neighbor's house on the far side of your house, so when you walk around it interferes with that signal.