Setting phone to only join known wifi networks and ignore all others...

Is it possible to set your phone to only join known wifi networks and ignore unknown wifi networks?
Being spammed with wifi connection quieries is really annoying. I live in Tokyo and I get about 15 messages in the 10 minutes walk from my place to the station.
I can turn off wifi completely, but then I have to turn it on and off every time I go into or out of a location with a wifi network that I wish to use.
Is it possible to set up my phone to automatically connect to wifi networks that connected to previously, yet ignore any networks which includes not harassing me by asking me if I wished to join the network? (If I wanted to join any particular network, I would ask the owner myself without the need for being prompted).

It is off. Unfortunately, all that function seems to do is stop my phone from asking me to join a "known" network. I could be wrong though as it's been a very long while since I tried turing it on.
Regardless of the setting of that function, I still get bombarded by messages asking me if I want to join unknown networks.

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