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[–] 11 points 2 months ago

Your phone is not broadcasting a list of WiFi networks it wants to connect to. That's not how it works at all.

It is periodically (couple of times a second probably) checking the available SSIDs to see if there is one that matches a remembered network on it's list.

It would be horribly insecure to have a device broadcasting the name of a network that it would actively try to connect to.

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