Comment by 🚀 stack

=> Re: "Things I hate about living in the now part II" | In: u/darkghost

Yeah, I really hate the idea of being involuntarily dragged into a proprietary mesh network that provides me with no benefits

=> 🚀 stack

Jan 09 · 3 weeks ago

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=> 🐸 HanzBrix · Jan 09 at 05:27:

Tile is another such thing, they are of course restricted to the tile network and therefore much less successful.

The apple ones are invisible to tile and the tile ones are invisible to apple.

There is an f-droid app that let's you detect all of them and track them down, as they are Bluetooth LE devices, it's pretty easy. I forget the name though.

=> 🚀 stack · Jan 09 at 05:33:

I think all amazon devices also connect to all the neighbors

=> 🐸 HanzBrix · Jan 09 at 05:47:

Found the fdroid app

=> — https://f-droid.org/packages/com.emacberry.uuid0xfd6fscan/

It is still good, but seems abandoned, but I also found this:

=> — https://f-droid.org/packages/f.cking.software/

=> 👻 darkghost [OP] · Jan 09 at 18:18:

@hansbrix Much appreciated F Droid app link. I've been using the phone tools and maybe I don't trust them fully.

=> 🐸 HanzBrix · Jan 09 at 19:08:

@darkghost Anytime. 😁

Original Post

=> 👻 darkghost

Things I hate about living in the now part II — Getting an unknown tracker alert on my phone. Why are these legal again? I never found it and it didn't pop up again. Must have been someone in proximity to me while I was out and about. Yes, I had it play a sound and did a manual scan. Didn't hear anything and didn't pop up.

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