If a thief steals an item with a tracker, they won’t know until the cops come knocking.
If their phone alerts them, now they know to either ditch the item or find and remove the tag quickly. If their phone now allows them to disable tracking for 24 hours easily, they have more time to find and disable the tracker.
I’m not saying these features won’t prevent stalking, but they do hurt theft tracking which is a primary purpose most people use these tags for. It seems they can only really be used for lost items, and only if lost near honest people, not opportunistic thieves.
It’s a shame stalkers had to ruin tracker tags, but I suppose it was inevitable.
How are they making it more useless?
If a thief steals an item with a tracker, they won’t know until the cops come knocking.
If their phone alerts them, now they know to either ditch the item or find and remove the tag quickly. If their phone now allows them to disable tracking for 24 hours easily, they have more time to find and disable the tracker.
I’m not saying these features won’t prevent stalking, but they do hurt theft tracking which is a primary purpose most people use these tags for. It seems they can only really be used for lost items, and only if lost near honest people, not opportunistic thieves.
It’s a shame stalkers had to ruin tracker tags, but I suppose it was inevitable.
That’s indeed a shame.
Their own phone won’t report the stolen item’s location, but other devices around will