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by zaarn 3030 days ago
IIRC current android and iOS devices will probe Wifi using a randomized MAC and only use the real mac once connecting for realsies.
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  researchers found that "the overwhelming majority of
  Android devices are not implementing the available
  randomization capabilities built into the Android OS,"
  which makes such Android devices trivial to track.
  [...]
  Apple, meanwhile, introduced MAC address randomization in
  iOS 8, only to break it in iOS 10. [...] its network probe
  broadcasts to include a distinct Information Element (IE),
  data added to Wi-Fi management frames to extend the Wi-Fi
  protocol.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/10/mac_address_randomi...

  four scholars from the US Naval Academy say they've
  managed to track 100% of all test smartphones, despite
  the devices using randomized MAC addresses. 
  [...]
  The novelty in our method is that we are sending RTS
  frames to IEEE 802.11 client devices, not APs, to
  extract a CTS response message which we derive the true
  global MAC address of that device.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-b...