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European Commission has a "Wifi4EU" initative, provides 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. (slrpnk.net)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25779751

The intative promises to be privacy-friendly with no tracking. Stating:

Your privacy is important. The WiFi4EU app ensures a private online experience with no tracking or data collection. Simply connect and enjoy free public Wi-Fi without concerns.

Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/wifi4eu-citizens

Will be interesting to see how this spans and plays out in reality. Looks promising too, did a quick scan of their builtin permissions and trackers and looks good too. (Scanning tool is called Exodus)

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[-] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 6 points 19 hours ago

But why an App & not a PWA ?

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 4 points 16 hours ago

Would have been nice indeed, however there is a web version: https://wifi4eu.ec.europa.eu/#/list-accesspoints

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 19 hours ago

Why not both?

[-] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago

PWAs are easy to maintain & lightweight

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

Not saying they aren't, just that a lot of folks will probably search their phone's app store and if they don't see it assume it doesn't exist for their phone.

[-] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago

Who said PWAs can't be put in an appstore ?

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