Redditor has worst possible experience with Google’s new Find My Device network

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Worst possible alternative, not hardly. He mailed the thing and tried to track it, and it didn’t work. When I saw “worst possbible experience” I expected a swat raid or something. This is 2024, and if all that goes wrong with a new tech gadget is that it doesn’t work, that’s literally a nothingburger. At least give us some battery explosions or something.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    battery explosions

    Samsung: “introducing our new tracking devices!”

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Says here my courier’s delivered it to the emergency ward”

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. Worst case for me is a stalker of some sort tracking me through my phone and sexually assaulting me in a parking garage or something when I’m alone.

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Redditor uses service that no one really uses yet, resulting in competing service that everyone defaults to using being better.”

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  • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How could this be?

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One of worlds largest companies, can’t even afford to fund a project to make it competitive.

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you aware of Google’s track record of products that have success? The graveyard would make Stalin blush.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Still annoyed that tile has not committed to making their devices compatible with this and rather want to push that life360 rubbish, that openly sells user data.

  People only really went with their product because something first party didn’t exist, now their service will get worse as people start adopting this over their service and they turn all their trackers into e-waste—because trackers without a good enough network are kind of useless

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• xep@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  opt-in

  I tried opting-out. There's no way to do this account wide; the setting has to be changed per-device. I didn't really like that.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use GrapheneOS, so it just doesn’t exist on my phone at all. I want nothing to do with this feature whatsoever.

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because Google decided to make it opt-in and by default also to send data only in crowded places.

  They said it’s because they care about privacy. But because it’s Google and we all know they don’t care a bit about privacyI wonder instead if it’s because keeping track of billions of devices it’s expensive and requires many servers, so it’s a cost cutting measure

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is Apple’s network opt-in?

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought the whole reason for its usefulness (coverage) was that it wasn’t opt-in.

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  • knightly@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shit like that is why Apple devices are banned from our home network.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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• sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It only proves how dystopian our present time is with how easily and accurately something can be tracked

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