[morpheuskafka]

Knowing whether someone has a Qualcomm, Broadcomm, Intel, or Foxconn WiFi card doesn't seem that useful for profiling.

Of course, the location tracking based on your device's network discovery packets is a whole bigger issue.

[stefan_]

That's how it works for something like a network card, but on smartphones, MAC addresses from the device vendor (Apple, Huawei, Xiamo, Motorola, ..) are used, even if the WiFi chip on all those devices is from the same manufacturer.

[eeZah7Ux]

On the contrary, it adds a good handful of bits of information.