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'"Walmartwifi" isn't compatible with iCloud Private Relay' | Store demands privacy sacrifice to use internet in their cavernous dead zone of a building (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by lemmingnosis@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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This is after forcing login to a store account:

At least they don’t hide in their ToS that:

“l agree to let Walmart monitor my use of Walmart WiFi, including to:

Determine my presence in Walmart stores
Associate information about me with my Walmart account
Improve products and services
Gather market insights about my in-store purchases and activities”

But that’s not enough, they need to monitor your internet activity further too.

For further reading, some greatest hits (the section headers on Wiki’s Criticism of Walmart):

Local communities
Allegations of predatory pricing and supplier issues
Labor relations
Poorly run and understaffed stores
No AEDs in stores (automated external defibrillators)
Imports and globalization
Product selection
Taxes
Animal welfare
Midtown Walmart
Opioids settlement

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[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The irony of using Apple products, thinking "Private" means "private".

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Do you think the advertising company’s phone is more private?

Google doesn’t make money when you buy a Samsung Galaxy. Google tracks everything you do on your Galaxy. They then take this data and sell targeted advertisement at you. Google makes money when they sell you to advertisers.

Apple makes money when you buy an iPhone.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nah. Their network their rules. Quit your bitching or use 5g.

[–] lemmingnosis@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

privacy sacrifice to use internet in their cavernous dead zone of a building

It was a worthwhile sacrifice, but I’m definitely gonna name & shame! Wouldn’t touch WiFi if it weren’t a dead zone.

Also gave me a chance to complain about some of their other business practices. (Certainly wouldn’t have shopped there if I hadn’t been asked to this one time.)

I’ve never seen this message before so they seem an outlier even in the greedy corporate world. Enough complaints and every once in a while a business changes their practices. Why not whine a little? 🙂

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The privacy community and yourself have become the equivalent of windows UAC. It's tiresome and no sane person with an understanding of technology would ever have the expectation of privacy on a public WiFi network. There are legal and compliance obligations.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the legal and compliance part the downvotes don't understand.

As a business, I would never operate an open-to-the-public network. The liability is too great.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 3 months ago

How is allowing people to use a VPN a legal/compliance issue? If anything the traffic is exiting to the internet elsewhere and because it’s encrypted you can’t see what’s happening, essentially offloading responsibility to someone else while still providing access.