Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon

Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by Cd00d on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:43PM (#17569622)

You need to turn off bluetooth on your phone too.

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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by larkeith on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:57PM (#17571405)

Huh, I wonder if that means you should disable WiFi discovery too.

Never thought I'd be that glad to be in the habit of mobile data only (not that there aren't problems there too...)

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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by forapurpose on Friday July 20, 2018 @06:59PM (#17579675)

Any signal your phone emits with identifying information could be used. Why not your cellular signal?

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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by larkeith on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:45PM (#17580451)

I'm a lot less concerned about retail stores tracking me via cell signal, as it requires much more specialized hardware/software - meanwhile, it's likely feasible to modify extant in-store WiFi infrastructure to track that.

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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by astura on Friday July 20, 2018 @05:36AM (#17573635)

Yes, WiFi discovery can be used to track to too.

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