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Add _nomap to your SSID to stop Google from using your access point for location services.

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632?hl=en

The fact that you have to change your SSID to opt out of third parties using it is... shady at best. What happens when two competing third parties have conflicting name requirements for you to opt-out?

> What happens when two competing third parties have conflicting name requirements for you to opt-out?

No worries! One or the other of them will change its mind as soon as any significant number of people start using the option.

And how do you know they actually obey it? :/

Knowing Google it will still go somewhere.

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