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It doesn’t sound like you’re actually looking for an answer to what could be improved. It sounds like you use the product or one like it so because it’s convenient for you you don’t care about the inconvenience or danger to anyone else. That’s pretty callous.
I’m absolutely curious what could be done but you still haven’t suggested anything and have spent this entire thread repeating the same FUD in circles.
I’ll put on the devil’s advocate hat here to offer you some ideas of things that a hypothetical person who wants to see more done to protect people could put forward in the sake of meaningful and productive discussion. I would take issue with some of these so I wouldn’t personally advocate for all of them, but:
Make them far more difficult to open to remove the speaker making noise, as it’s really easy right now.
Require the user to “check in” with the tag every few weeks by making them tap it with their phone, to prevent tags from being attached to people for extended periods of time w/o interaction.
Disable the tag if it leaves a geofence indicating the owner’s home for longer than a period of time (say 2 weeks)
Attach the tag owner’s name and picture on the notification about a tag following them
Affix a louder speaker and bright LEDs to make detection easier
For example, if you had said “the speakers have been easy to remove such that there are hundreds of YouTube videos on the matter, and even if they aren’t removed they are fairly quiet and hard to detect”, I would be fully in support of the criticism. But this level of criticism or discussion was not put forward.
I’m absolutely curious what could be done but you still haven’t suggested anything and have spent this entire thread repeating the same FUD in circles.
I’ll put on the devil’s advocate hat here to offer you some ideas of things that a hypothetical person who wants to see more done to protect people could put forward in the sake of meaningful and productive discussion. I would take issue with some of these so I wouldn’t personally advocate for all of them, but:
For example, if you had said “the speakers have been easy to remove such that there are hundreds of YouTube videos on the matter, and even if they aren’t removed they are fairly quiet and hard to detect”, I would be fully in support of the criticism. But this level of criticism or discussion was not put forward.