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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by jackson1442 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:49PM (#27124594)
You can still have traditional Find My- the one where your phone connects and tells Apple where its GPS is. This switch is specifically for the networking, which allows other devices to help out when your phone is dead or otherwise not connected to the internet/gps.
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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by darkarmani on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @07:29PM (#27124923)
But i wouldn't mind helping people find their phones, but i would want to opt out of airtags. I'm not mooching because i don't have any airtags.
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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by wfme on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @09:31PM (#27125682)
If it has no impact on you, why would you want to opt out of the airtag tracking?
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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by exporectomy on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:52AM (#27127474)
If you were known to be the only person who frequents an area, then an adversary's Airtag planted there getting updated would notify them that you were present.
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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by fastball on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:45AM (#27130928)
Are ya'll trying to invent the dumbest sounding scenarios or is that inadvertent?
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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by eknkc on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @04:32AM (#27128069)
In this extremely specific case where people are planting airtags to track you, you can simply disable the feature as the parent mentions.
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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by intev on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:01PM (#27126120)
"I don't use that freeway so I don't want to pay for the maintenance"

Either you use the roads and pay for all the roads or you don't.

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Re:I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress by darkarmani on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:53PM (#27135599)
That's a terrible analogy. I don't allow android devices to use my "ios roads" as it is. Why does it matter if i don't want airtags to mooch off my network? It's not like airtags are providing their share of network back to me.
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