Comment by wepple

Problems: if the thief steals your item while the AirTag is on, they can find and disable it.

Have you experimented with a setup (more complicated to package) where you have two AirTags and alternately power one at a time? Could that bypass apples detection whilst also broadcasting location?

Edit: at sufficiently small time durations to run under apples detection radar, but for long enough to be picked up as a location

I don’t know how Apple detects the tracking; this would easily be solved by them.