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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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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Bluetooth devices only broadcast their name when in pairing mode, at other times only the mac address is available. In other words, these are just people’s Bluetooth devices like headphones, cellphones, airtags, etc.

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… tv’s, soundbars, remotes, keyboards, mouses, media players,… fucking toothbrushes, vibrators, mirrors, etcs.

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Please don’t fuck toothbrushes :(

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What if they vibrate though?

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They may just be other people’s various devices. Maybe IoT devices or devices not fully set up. If you’re living near a store/above a store, those might be Bluetooth beacons that track people through the store.

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TIL about Bluetooth beacons. I assumed people were tracked, but I didn’t consider it was via Bluetooth.

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Bluetooth personal networks have been a thing for about a decade and are used for monitoring traffic density and flow by third party companies. It’s partly why Apple was removing their aux ports and pushing for Bluetooth so much, they are making money with tracking their statistically significant user base. Google does it too and it’s most readily evident with Maps traffic filter.

If you’ve wondered why enabling Bluetooth asked for iPhone location to be enabled, now you know.

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What the fuck

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Bluetooth personal networks have been a thing for about a decade

Bluetooth has been around a lot longer than that. Since 1989.

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Bird aren’t real

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Because you have lots of BT devices around you!

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