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why?

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.

what does their device locator service have to do with your home network?

Apple’s device locator service uses the internet to report device IDs and GPS coords to Apple.

I’m genuinely curious, because nothing from that service has anything to do with anything that might happen on your network

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.

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ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

profiling the Bluetooth devices in my house

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.

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- knightly@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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.
  
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2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
According to Apple (and I’m sure people have already investigated it), location data is encrypted in such a way that only the owner of the device can read the transmitted location. So no, this isn’t going to “associate your IP address with your location”.

Only you can see where your AirTag is. Your location data and history are never stored on the AirTag itself. Devices that relay the location of your AirTag also stay anonymous, and that location data is encrypted every step of the way. So not even Apple knows the location of your AirTag or the identity of the device that helps find it.

(from www.apple.com/airtag/)

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