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Redditor has worst possible experience with Google’s new Find My Device network
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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Shit like that is why Apple devices are banned from our home network.
why? what does their device locator service have to do with your home network?
I'm genuinely curious, because nothing from that service has anything to do with anything that might happen on your network
For the same reason that one might block ads or cookies, of course. I don't want a third party corporation profiling the bluetooth devices in my house and selling data about me to advertizers.
Apple's device locator service uses the internet to report device IDs and GPS coords to Apple.
Ideally, that would be true. But device locators necessarily report their snooping using an internet connection, and if they're on my home network when they do it then they'd associate my IP address with my location. That's way more of my personal information than I want Apple to have.
Uh, I hope you’re banning anyone with an iPhone from even getting within 10 meters of your house. Because their phone could easily just grab a list of all BT MACs (or hell, even WiFi MACs) it finds and then transmits that with its current GPS coordinates via its cell network. Doesn’t even need your network at all. And your wireless devices have to transmit their MAC addresses to work even if their not in pairing mode.
Not much I can do about that, but I can at least keep them off my network so that info isn't associated with my IP address and sold off to whoever wants it.