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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)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 15 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Damn, this is so cool.
We could have had this in the States too, but, well, you all know.

[–] miked@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This will never be possible in the States. We still have areas with no cellular.

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[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But why an App & not a PWA ?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why not both?

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

PWAs are easy to maintain & lightweight

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

So, if I live in the EU, what's stopping me from cancelling my home plan and making the wifi experience worse for everyone?

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

More Europeans than ever can watch the live-streamed genocide that we've been arming and encouraging!

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks to EU roaming rules...

Not quite. I've come across a few plans that don't offer EU roaming, and also those where there's far less data offered than the regulation requires, or found a loophole.

Let's go for the examples of no EU roaming data:
T-Mobile CZ Twist IoT CR - IoT card, but it offers up to 500GB of data paid once a year (78 EUR), only usable in Czech Republic.
T-Mobile CZ 100GB edition - regular SIM, but also CR-only
Vodafone CZ GIGA 100 + 50 GB - also a regular prepaid, but no roaming
Swan Mobile (4ka) Sloboda Data - 300GB in Slovakia, but 0.144 EUR per MB in EU.

For the last example, they're also the same example that breaches the regulation with other packages. When I did the calculations, they exactly checked out for other 3 MNOs, so I guess I did them right, but they didn't for Swan.
Further confirming this is the fact that they have already received at least 2 (as far as I could find) fines for breaching these RLAH regulations, that is 15,000 and 90,000 EUR, but I suppose that just ends up being cheaper for them, as it still isn't fixed.

Anyway, perhaps they did in fact fix this, with a loophole.
For example, take Sloboda Nekonecno+ for 25EUR/month with "unlimited" (300GB) data. 8.25GB of EU roaming does not look right there.
So what is going on?
On paper, it's split up into base and additional package. Base package is 20EUR, and only has 2GB of data. Additional package with unlimited data is 5EUR/month, and as you could guess, cannot be purchased separately.

So, for base package, you get full allowance, thus 2GB. Additional package is calculated separately, (4.06504065041 / 1.30) * 2 is 6.25. And thus 8.25GB instead of 31.27GB was born.

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