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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Its a good reason to allow wifi but there is no reason for you to receive such a notification unless your home to act on it, otherwise your better of receiving the notification once your phone reconnect with your homes wifi.

Wifi isnt the same as internet.

There is sometimes but rarely a good reason for those same decides to connect to the public web. They are much more secure if everything stays local.

The prime reason companies claim they need internet so you can set up things like stop heat when i am not home…. But guess what, if my phone isnt activity at home connecting to wifi, my home server can figure it out on its own, no cloud required.