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Originally Posted by rcentros
Hopefully you're not equating Amazon with a "good neighbor" who's just "helping out folks." Because it's not the neighbors getting together and mutually sharing, it's Amazon building some kind of connected mesh. I don't buy into their stated reasons for it. I also don't trust them to keep sidewalk disabled Echo devices "sidewalk disabled."
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No, that was not my point at all. I have already written in this thread that I think the opt out strategy for Sidewalk is sleazy and will end up hurting Amazon more than it helps Sidewalk. Your attitude expressed above shows how this has backfired for them.
I have also written that I find it odd that Apple's Find My network isn't being called out too. It uses my iPhone and its cellular service to help locate other people's AirPods and AirTags, and they
don't give me the option to opt out as far as I know also make me opt out instead of opt in.
I was referring to the idea of keeping Sidewalk enabled, at no actual additional cost to yourself in most cases, in order to help your neighbor locate their lost dog. I can understand disabling Sidewalk because you no longer trust Amazon, but the argument that the additional bandwidth usage of Sidewalk is going to be a burden doesn't fly for me.