Free Wifi!

[wheypat]

Just create an account - all we need is

Your Name
Your email
Your address
Your phone number (home and mobile)
Mother's maiden name
Name of your first pet
DNA of your first child (OK I made that one up)

so we can pester you for ever and anon with crap from the marketing department.

Then when you do get online the connection makes me go back to the 4G signal on the phone anyway

[UncleEbenezer]

You have a 4g signal? What's to complain about?

[madhatter]

A few times I have checked for free WiFi when near a superstore and then looked for a Privacy Policy.

They had one, but it could be paraphrased as “there isn’t any. We will share your data with all and sundry”.

Fair enough. It’s their business model I suppose, but a bit off putting.

[Urbandreamer]

It doesn't sound quite as bad as the "Herod clause".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... rod-clause

[didds]

“the recipient agreed to assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity”. Six people signed up.

maybe all six were age 90+ and had no (living) offspring???

didds

[Slarti]

Just create an account - all we need is

Your Name
Your email
Your address
Your phone number (home and mobile)
Mother's maiden name
Name of your first pet
DNA of your first child (OK I made that one up)

so we can pester you for ever and anon with crap from the marketing department.

Then when you do get online the connection makes me go back to the 4G signal on the phone anyway

Simple answer, lie.


Or go somewhere that doesn't need that, like Tesco or many smaller coffee shops and restaurants.

[jdlemon]

Doesn't everybody have a fake profile or two they use for exactly this kind of purpose, dob 1st Jan of some memorable year, gender false, etc etc? (Two because you need one which has an email address that's thrown away, e.g. a@somewellknowncompanywhichhasonlytwoletters.com, and one which you will occasionally check)

If you don't then perhaps you should...

Jon

[UncleEbenezer]

Doesn't everybody have a fake profile or two they use for exactly this kind of purpose, dob 1st Jan of some memorable year, gender false, etc etc? (Two because you need one which has an email address that's thrown away, e.g. a@somewellknowncompanywhichhasonlytwoletters.com, and one which you will occasionally check)

If you don't then perhaps you should...

Jon

Just to reveal my customary email address, it's not.me@not.here .

Feel free to abuse it.

[bungeejumper]

Just to reveal my customary email address, it's not.me@not.here .

Feel free to abuse it.

So that's you, is it? Blimey, have you seen how much Cambridge Analytica knows about you?