Received notice of a change to the service in my inbox today. Seems icky to me.

Devices in the network use Bluetooth to scan for nearby items. If other devices detect your items, they’ll securely send the locations where the items were detected to Find My Device. Your Android devices will do the same to help others find their offline items when detected nearby

Your devices’ locations will be encrypted using the PIN, pattern, or password for your Android devices. They can only be seen by you and those you share your devices with in Find My Device. They will not be visible to Google or used for other purposes.

ETA: here’s the link to opt out: opt out of the network

  • youmaynotknow
    2·
    6 months ago

    Yeah. I also use it when I travel to Canada, Ecuador, Colombia and México, and it just works. I’m telling you, it’s been a life saver because the roaming fees from my country’s providers are ridiculously high.

    I’ve been expecting Google to kill it like they tend to do with everything people start to like, but it’s been over 7 years already, and still going.

    I have no idea what the impact would be with LOS, but with GrapheneOS, I don’t even get error messages. Granted, I did use play services while setting up the Fi app, then un-installed it all and update from Aurora. Flawless.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I’ve been expecting Google to kill it like they tend to do with everything people start to like, but it’s been over 7 years already, and still going.

      Don’t jinx it!!! 😉

      Aurora

      I’ll be checking this out tonight; thanks for the tip!