alt Hacker NewsUnfortunately the anti-stalking features have made Airtag mostly useless for theft prevention. You have less than an hour to retrieve your item before the tag alerts the thief they are being tracked. I've seen it trigger as quickly as 30 minutes.
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How would airtags work as theft prevention? Airtags only enter the equation once something has already been stolen.
How useful is a GPS position for theft prevention? IME cops are not interested in doing more than filing a report after a theft, even if you have a live GPS location of the item for them. Do you try and go get it yourself?
Interesting, I hadn't considered theft recovery to be a use case for Airtags before. I've only used them for "where the hell did that X go".
I disable the speaker in the ones I attach to luggage. (For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vAQNedIa0o )
What happens after that? It goes dark? Or it just alerts the thief (stalker victim)?
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
Initially they didn’t have it, people complained, now they do, and people still complain.