At the end of the article they say many of the listings have terrible reviews because the safety features in FindMy were triggered.
If any of these devices use the networks Google and Apple made, they are not gps.
Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can tell just from looking that they’re just btle not gps. Thankfully both Google and Apple tell you when a tag on their networks is traveling with you. So either these are trash because they’re not on the two largest networks that share data, or they’re useless because they are and if you have a smart phone it’ll warn you.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day ago
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve seen some pretty small GPS trackers with cell modems, I wouldn’t be surprised if these were that instead depending on the price.
gressen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Fortunately they hold the charge for realistically short time and therefore are limited in use.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It has way less to do with the size of the device and more to do with the size of the battery. Not much room left at all between the cell modem and GPS antenna required to make that thing work.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Indeed, the models I have seen have a very short battery life, or check in infrequently, or only check in when movement is detected, or use cell signal triangulation to save battery, etc.