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I dunno, a less than perfectly all-seeing omnipresent tracking network actually is a little comforting


It's not very useful for tracking your things though, which arguably is why you would use it. I wouldn't trust Google's network to find a stolen bike or lost luggage for instance, but air tags are used for that all the time[0]. Finding my lost keys at home is a perfectly valid use case for tags, but you don't need a network for that, just some Bluetooth and maybe UWB.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2024/12/17/lost-lu...

https://help.vanmoof.com/hc/en-us/articles/16053155393181-Ho...


Google is still seeing everything, of course, just not the plebs.




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