Tile makes a tracker app so that you can detect unwanted Tiles following you around, and now they have announced an "anti-theft mode" that makes the Tile undetectable to the detection app. Way to miss the fucking point.
This is your regular reminder that you CANNOT make a physical tracker that tracks thieves without alerting them without also creating a perfect tool for stalkers.
@evacide why do they want to not alert thieves that they should leave their things behind?
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I presume because they expect that the thief would rather use that opportunity to find and disable the tracker.
@robryk @evacide having trouble thinking of something you’d want to track where finding the tracker wouldn’t either be so time consuming the thief would expect to be caught, or so destructive it would defeat the purpose of stealing