I live in a big city in the center. When i activate “Show bluetooth devices without names” in the developer settings of my android 13 phone, there appear loads of this devices. I have no clue what they are. Does anyone know? Are that the bluetooth nanobots of the vaxxinated people? (/s to last question!)

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If I had to guess you probably live in a big city in the center. This means when you activate “Show bluetooth devices without names” in the developer settings of your android 13 phone, there appear loads of devices. You probably have no clue what they are because none of them are your devices so why would you know what they are?

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I guess im not smart enough to get what you want…

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If you live in a city center you are probably in a highly populated area and your phone is receiving the signals from other people’s Bluetooth devices in proximity to you and your phone. Basically your seeing the devices of all your neighbors, because that’s how wireless Bluetooth transmission works.

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or in other words, BT devices broadcast their names only in pairing mode, so you know only the names of devices you are paired with.

all other devices continue to be there, but normally not shown, because you don’t know them.

Until you pair, there’s no reason for showing them

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Stasi listening devices. We never went away, comrade.

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Nowadays, people buy them out of free will. They give them names and ask them to play Despacito.

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Can confirm (posted from a Stasi listening device)

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God dammit.

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Probably just because you live in a big city and there are a shitload of bluetooth devices around. If you’re worried, try moving out of bluetooth range and scanning again to see if any of them don’t change.

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All those spiders that you’re never more than 10 feet from have started using fitness wearables, and with 8 arms each that’s a lot of bluetooth nearby.

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Don’t forget the birds. They want us to think they’re eating the spiders. It’s actually more like Uber for spiders, they use Bluetooth for ride hailing.

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Birds don’t use Bluetooth. They use 5g in order to connect to the government surveillance drone network

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Haha, birds. Right,lol.

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There’s an app called AirGuard put out by a German university, it scans for air tags in your vicinity. Useful if you are worried about someone slipping an AirTag on your person/belongings to track you.

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