My email is whatever shit protonpass comes up with when I generate a random alias. Phone number is 3334445566 Name is: lol no Gender is undisclosed DoB is January 1st of the first year I can select. Otherwise, 1900 And income is 1.

There, free WiFi.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 52 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That said...A wifi access point that requests that info is almost certainly not private for every other trackable thing you do with that wifi, however.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 61 points 1 month ago

It's good practice to assume that this is true of every network you don't control.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

If it's an open WiFi (no WPA password) packets are not encrypted anyway, so anyone on this AP can easily see everything that comes through it. A decade ago, when most websites allowed plain HTTP, there was a Firefox extension which let you hijack the Facebook or Twitter session of anyone connected to an open WiFi with a couple of clicks.

Nowadays everything is hopefully encrypted at the application level, so while attackers can see where the data goes, they can't actually read it.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

Everything you do on a public WiFi should be through a VPN anyway. Just in case you accidentally forget you are on it and log in somewhere.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

I usually use:
Email - nope@nah.com
Name - Nah Nope
Gender - prefer not to say
DoB - same as you
Phone - just random digits, or if I'm feeling spicy the phone number of a guy I used to be buddies with who fucked me over
Income - never been asked for this yet, probably go with something outlandish....like 1

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Personally I like giving my personal data as Pope Francis.