Mac Address tweak no longer apply in 4.2?

[Lace]

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“The Tails virtual machine does not modify the behaviour of the host operating system and the network traffic of the host is not anonymized. The MAC address of the computer is not modified by the MAC address anonymization feature of Tails when run in a virtual machine.”

source:
https://tails.net/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/

Is manually altering the Mac Address spoofing no longer applicable since 4.1 Qubes onward, when on a WiFi connection — even when choosing to use Tails OS instead of Whonix?

[apparatus]

Anonymizing your MAC address

Although the MAC address is not the only metadata broadcast by network hardware, changing your hardware’s default MAC Address could be an important step in protecting privacy. Qubes OS 4.1 and later already anonymize all Wi-Fi MAC addresses by default - they change during every Wifi session. So there is no need to apply any of the instructions below if you’re only interested in Wi-Fi connections. Users requiring Ethernet MAC address anonymization may want to read on. Randomize a single connec…

[solene]

FWIW I wrote a long guide explaining tracking done using MAC addresses and possible mitigation

Privacy issues related to MAC addresses

[solene]

@Lace

Is manually altering the Mac Address spoofing no longer applicable since 4.1 Qubes onward, when on a WiFi connection — even when choosing to use Tails OS instead of Whonix?

on Qubes OS the virtual machine has direct access to the network interface, so it can change its MAC.

The MAC doesn’t leak if it’s not attached to the physical network interface, so we don’t care (on Qubes OS) if Tails can’t randomize it.