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Re: Find My Device on Android

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Post by aabhay »

foooorsyth wrote: post #20
accrual wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I bought a couple Tiles before AirTags were available. They worked fine, but AirTags are just better in every way.

AirTags are not better in one very important way: they don't prevent theft. They will notify thieves that they are hidden in a valuable item that they are stealing if the thief carries an iPhone. Tile has a feature where you can submit your info and sign some sort of extra contract stating that you won't use your Tile for stalking/illegal activity, and you can actually hide a Tile in your bike frame and it can be use…

If you hide the tag in a way that it can’t be removed (locked to the bike etc) then what option does the thief have? They might actually decide not to steal the item!

Re: Find My Device on Android

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Post by someplaceguy »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #28
someplaceguy wrote: post #12

Sure. But more importantly, how do I disable this completely?

Faraday bags are fairly inexpensive. I use these with my car key fobs because my neighbors teenagers discovered key fob amplification attacks.

Let me qualify my question: how do I disable this completely without otherwise losing network connectivity or other features?

i.e. how do I opt out of tracking other people and being tracked myself, i.e. without explicit consent?

Re: Find My Device on Android

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Post by causi »

ddalex wrote: post #3

I love my Tile(s), but since the AirTag and now Android networks now feature the same capability, I feel their model is dead in the water since they don't own the platform and can't compete on the installed base. They should have sold out (edit: to a mobile platform company, either Google or Apple) while they had the chance.

As someone who owns about eight of them, I don't see how you could love Tile. They have a ridiculous profit margin and the company likes to engage in asshole practices like making it so getting a notification when you lose connection with a tile is a fucking monthly subscription. Companies that charge for things which cost them literally zero dollars deserve to burn to the ground.

Re: Find My Device on Android

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Post by buster »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #28
someplaceguy wrote: post #12

Sure. But more importantly, how do I disable this completely?

Faraday bags are fairly inexpensive. I use these with my car key fobs because my neighbors teenagers discovered key fob amplification attacks.

I just needed 3 minutes to parse faraday bags ("far a day"? Is it some vendor i don't know of?). Funny, how the brain works.

Re: Find My Device on Android

#36

Post by otachack »

someplaceguy wrote: post #32
SamuelAdams wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Faraday bags are fairly inexpensive. I use these with my car key fobs because my neighbors teenagers discovered key fob amplification attacks.

Let me qualify my question: how do I disable this completely without otherwise losing network connectivity or other features ? i.e. how do I opt out of tracking other people and being tracked myself, i.e. without explicit consent?

One way is to support orgs like EFF that push for policy change to force Google and other powers-that-be to give you fine grain control.

Re: Find My Device on Android

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

ddalex wrote: post #3

I love my Tile(s), but since the AirTag and now Android networks now feature the same capability, I feel their model is dead in the water since they don't own the platform and can't compete on the installed base. They should have sold out (edit: to a mobile platform company, either Google or Apple) while they had the chance.

Yeah I can't really see where they go from here, which is a big shame personally because I got a bunch of very cheap battery replaceable ones years back that are still going strong. Also got a four pack of long dead gen 2s that were pretty easy to cut apart, rejig for replaceable batteries and embed into a few items.

Re: Find My Device on Android

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Post by someplaceguy »

otachack wrote: post #36
someplaceguy wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me qualify my question: how do I disable this completely without otherwise losing network connectivity or other features ? i.e. how do I opt out of tracking other people and being tracked myself, i.e. without explicit consent?

One way is to support orgs like EFF that push for policy change to force Google and other powers-that-be to give you fine grain control.

So you're saying that it's not possible to do what I asked, currently.

And judging by the other comments in this thread ATM (with one possible exception), nobody seems to care...

Re: Find My Device on Android

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Post by madeofpalk »

saurik wrote: post #29
accrual wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I bought a couple Tiles before AirTags were available. They worked fine, but AirTags are just better in every way.

AirTags only come in a single size and shape that only makes sense for larger container objects. Tile makes a flat credit-card sized variant that you can slide in your wallet, and the adapters required to put an AirTag on a keychain is pretty ridiculous in comparison to the tiny variants you can get from Tile with a built-in hole for this purpose. (Also: AFAIK the "large"--not really, in comparison to the AirTag + ad…

Kind of. Apple's Find My network is open to third party accessory makers. Here's a card-shaped one https://chipolo.net/en/products/chipolo-card-spot

I don't believe third party accessories support the compass-style precision finding though.

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