Yep, so glad that this feature exists. Hope everyone else follows suit.

Have nothing against collecting data of people which choose to join the network, accept T&Cs etc but bulk connection of people passing by is not cool.

I doubt it will be long before this randomization is of no real protection against systems employed by the likes of the NSA and similar. If they can figure it out then a private company could as well and market the managing of free wi-fi services to localities and such all under the guise of better understanding your customers, or worse protection from bad people.

This previous story should pretty much end the idea that even randomizing your Mac address matters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8094134

Isn't Apple leading the beacon tech though?