Android’s unknown tracker alerts feature is getting an update that makes it easier to stop people from tracking you.
So they’re making their tag network even more useless to track stolen items. Their network is already so crippled as to be useless.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article
How are they making it more useless?
If a thief steals an item with a tracker, they won’t know until the cops come knocking.
If their phone alerts them, now they know to either ditch the item or find and remove the tag quickly. If their phone now allows them to disable tracking for 24 hours easily, they have more time to find and disable the tracker.
I’m not saying these features won’t prevent stalking, but they do hurt theft tracking which is a primary purpose most people use these tags for. It seems they can only really be used for lost items, and only if lost near honest people, not opportunistic thieves.
It’s a shame stalkers had to ruin tracker tags, but I suppose it was inevitable.
That’s indeed a shame.
Their own phone won’t report the stolen item’s location, but other devices around will
so if I were to steal something just hang in a mcdonalds for an hour or two till the alert appears, then pause tracking for 24 hours and go home and hit it with a hammer? works for me.
I swear google doesn’t think this stuff through lol
Being said that doesn’t mean it can’t bounce off another person’s device on the way, so there’s that at least
Is this a ploy to get me to leave my Bluetooth on at all times? Hell fucking no. No stalker is that dangerous.
YMMV
