Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
by polartx on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:05PM
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I thought that was kind of implied by the ‘Enable Find my IPhone’ setting that is required for the tags to work..which isn’t a condition I’m upset about. IE—want to benefit from this feature? Thanks for pitching in! Don’t want to be part of the helpful network? Okay, disable Find my IPhone
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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
by ASalazarMX on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:29PM
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You phrase it as if it was some community effort. Since it's opt-out and people don't change the defaults several levels deep, it's a shadow service. How many Apple users know their devices are tracking other's devices?
Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
by kube-system on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:42PM
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IIRC, when I set up my iPhone, I was asked whether I wanted to turn on location services (which would be used with the Find My network), and separately asked whether I wanted to "participate in the Find My network".
Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
by admax88q on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @07:08PM
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Let's be honest, this is what you sign up for with Apple. Apple chooses not only the defaults but even what software you are allowed to run.
To be surprised that Apple uses "their" network of devices to provide services to their users shouldn't be surprising.
If you wanted control over your device you shouldn't buy Apple, their stance on user's ownership of devices is widely known.