Because now he ' s in , we have to point out which stuff he ' s actually doing , and which was just empty rhetoric to get attention ? <| sep |> It appears you ' re confusing two fundamentally different thingsWhat you ' re talking about is that apps running on a device that is connected via wifi can see the SSID of that connection , as well as the SSID of wifis nearby . And that is commonly used as part of the location services by Google and others . However , changing your SSID is completely futile in this case , as SSID information is combined with other location based information like cell towers and GPS . So your new SSID will be quickly identified as the same location as your old one . And even if you disable GPS and never connect to any cell towers , others in the vicinity of your router will , and they will send that information to Google etc . , who then will still know the location of your new SSID . So what exactly have you achieved here ? Nothing at all . The second thing is browser fingerprinting , based on your IP and a lot of other attributes that are in combination unique to your browser and you . But SSID is not one of these things , as it ' s not visible via web browsing or any other internet connection . It ' s not used for fingerprinting . Tldr Chaning your SSID is completely pointless .