Exclude Wi-Fis by SSID

[mjaakko]

Currently all Wi-Fi access points are included in the reports (except those where SSID is empty or ends with "_nomap"). To save storage space and to avoid transmitting useless data over the network, those APs which get discarded by the server anyway could be excluded from the reports

Implementation:

Allow importing exclusion rules from a file. If no rules have been selected, all access points are collected as it is now

See https://codeberg.org/beacondb/common-network-index for the rules used by BeaconDB

[Mikaela]

I hope importing file means that a file could just be linked and it could have some local cache/fallover support if the file link returned an error.

[boredsquirrel]

https://codeberg.org/beacondb/common-network-index

[mjaakko]

It would be nice to have a list in the repo that users can easily contribute to, that is then used inside the app, somehow.

I think it's best if we use the common-network-index repo from BeaconDB and provide a way to import it to NeoStumbler. Importing it from a file would be easiest to implement, but it would be better for usability to be able to provide an URL where the updates are automatically fetched

[lucasmz-dev]

Impacts privacy as well

[boredsquirrel]

there currently is the question how to deal with SSIDs that are used for moving AND stationary wifis.

this sounds like it would require way more advanced things, like having a secondary DB of all public transport stations, and collecting those networks only when near them.

[mjaakko]

there currently is the question how to deal with SSIDs that are used for moving AND stationary wifis.

Those can be dealt with on the server-side by looking at whether the access point is moving or not. Excluding APs based on the SSID would only be pre-filtering for those APs where we can be sure that it's moving