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 2 months ago

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

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months 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 2 months 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.