Comment by brookst
5 days ago
Fair point on the forwarding being non-disable-able. But I don’t see any privacy issue there. The forwarder provides observed obfuscated ID and location, which seems less fraught than even the signal strength metadata returned to cell towers.
I had misinterpreted “you can’t block the tracking” to mean of your own phone, rather than of devices that other people want tracked.
It joins phone location + tagid to provide location info of all tags. the backend then (hopefully) filters out tags people don’t want to track.
‘obfusication’ of IDs isn’t a meaningful thing here, or literally none of it would work.
the whole point of airtags is your phone doesn’t need to be anywhere near the tag to find it.