Aren’t the Apple and Android networks supposed to be working together? I thought that’s why Google delayed this, because anyone could be tracked without knowing by a tracker on the other network.
Kind of. From what I’ve heard each network will alert you if it always sees the same tracker from the other network, as a precaution against unwanted tracking / stalking. I don’t believe it goes further than that though, as in the networks won’t report back all the tags they see on a daily basis to help with location.
Of course they could, this is a software limitation. However consumer friendliness is not in either companies interests. Apple prefers to keep total control over their ecosystems so they aren’t going to do Google any favours, and Google likely doesn’t care much either way seeing how long it’s taken them to even attempt a similar network.
Aren’t the Apple and Android networks supposed to be working together? I thought that’s why Google delayed this, because anyone could be tracked without knowing by a tracker on the other network.
Kind of. From what I’ve heard each network will alert you if it always sees the same tracker from the other network, as a precaution against unwanted tracking / stalking. I don’t believe it goes further than that though, as in the networks won’t report back all the tags they see on a daily basis to help with location.
Any tag following you = alert
Tag from the other network seen = nothing
Duuuuude… They couldn’t just take that extra step and broadcast the location? It would make both types of trackers far more useful
Of course they could, this is a software limitation. However consumer friendliness is not in either companies interests. Apple prefers to keep total control over their ecosystems so they aren’t going to do Google any favours, and Google likely doesn’t care much either way seeing how long it’s taken them to even attempt a similar network.
They both implemented ways to detect each others tags and warn their users.
Afaik that’s as far as it goes.