Worst possible experience, not hardly. He mailed the thing and tried to track it, and it didn’t work. When I saw “worst possible experience” I expected a swat raid or something. This is 2024, and if all that goes wrong with a new tech gadget is that it doesn’t work, that’s literally a nothingburger. At least give us some battery explosions or something.

Obligatory: https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

“Redditor uses service that no one really uses yet, resulting in competing service that everyone defaults to using being better.”

Still annoyed that tile has not committed to making their devices compatible with this and rather want to push that life360 rubbish, which openly sells user data.

People only really went with their product because something first party didn’t exist, now their service will get worse as people start adopting this over their service and they turn all their trackers into e-waste—because trackers without a good enough network are kind of useless

opt-in

I tried opting-out. There’s no way to do this account wide; the setting has to be changed per-device. I didn’t really like that.

Because Google decided to make it opt-in and by default also to send data only in crowded places.

They said it’s because they care about privacy. But because it’s Google and we all know they don’t care a bit about privacyI wonder instead if it’s because keeping track of billions of devices it’s expensive and requires many servers, so it’s a cost cutting measure