I am a Tasker enthusiast and when I can automate something simple on my phone I like to. I set a simple task to turn off WiFi when my home network is not detected so my phone doesn't scan and report my location to businesses. However, this functionality is now nonexistent and the developer has to ask people not to one-star their app because it doesn't work. My phone is my phone and killing my ability to use it as such for whatever security theater Google is playing at is why I root my device. Anyone else still rooting for similar reasons?

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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You've misread that. When he leaves his home network, he has it switch off wifi to prevent it being picked up by other networks. Probably has it being switched back on by cell tower / similar location option

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don’t think I did. I just assumed it would be impossible to detect the home network automatically once WiFi was automatically switched off. Unless off isn’t actually off. Or the “auto on” part was location based.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    You are right, that is impossible, but it isn't what they are doing.

    They are turning it back on either manually or by some other method (cell tower for instance). This automation seems to be to just turn it off.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You've now misread twice. Go back and try again.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just have your WiFi turn back on when you get back to your home, you can do location based stuff with tasker, I used to have it on my old phone and made it turn my phone on silent and turn off the WiFi when I got to work, but as soon as I got home it put my phne back to normal.

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    No you don’t understand. See you can set it to turn on once his GPS shows he’s home again.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, which i literally said "cell tower / similar location option"

    Cell tower is the lowest power cost for getting location, GPS is the most power hungry.

    https://tasker.joaoapps.com/userguide/en/loctears.html

    I've used tasker for 13 years, im quite aware it can do GPS :P

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