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

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:

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):

117 comments

Nah. Their network their rules. Quit your bitching or use 5g.
LOL, "your communication cannot go through our service that we can monitor, so somebody else might be spying on you, black is white, war is peace, freedom is slavery"
Start giving their store one star reviews and mention this
Please just don’t use public WiFi and if you do, assume that your privacy and security are at risk.
I don't understand why you would need wifi in a supermarket. What are you doing while shopping that mobile data can't handle?
Murrica lmao
Oh this gives me good reason to find a Walmart. I would love to see how it handles VPNs and it would be a fun game to set up a travel router that can obfuscate the VPN tunnel if needed.
Offering open wifi for the public is a terrifying thought.
Just set up a cheap squid proxy or an http proxy. They often still work
Looks to me like you just needed to get through the captive portal and could have turned it back on immediately after.
The irony of using Apple products, thinking "Private" means "private".

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