Google has published a way to hide the access point from using it in their geolocation services.

Some time ago , an initiative of one of Google advisers was mentioned on Habré, the purpose of which is to enable users of access points to manage the possibility of their device participating in the search giant's geolocation services. The main reason for this was, of course, the well-known Street View scandals and other problems in several European countries, when Google was found to be gathering “extra” information from access points - such as the MAC addresses of devices.

Yesterday, Google published a way to influence the fact of including its Wi-Fi device in the company's geolocation services database. Everything turned out to be quite practical - users are invited to change the SSID of the access point so that it ends with the string " _nomap ". After that, if the access point signal is required by one of the Google Location servers to determine the location of something, then such an access point will simply be excluded from the database of available devices and will not be used in the future.

It is curious that Google apparently considered the task of changing the SSID to be a non-trivial operation, because they offered quite detailed instructions for users on how to do this, describing command line manipulations not only on Windows and MacOS, but also on Linux in including
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