Tldr: Bluetooth isn’t entirely the problem. The problem is manufacturers who don’t add privacy features like rotating identifiers into their Bluetooth enabled devices. Many smartphones are doing this these days.
E.g. modern non-cheap devices (iphone, pixel, general higher level android, airpods, apple watches, other modern headphones etc.) have those, and are not really track able like this.
I’d say that it is Bluetooth, because the Bluetooth guys didn’t build resistance to tracking and leaking data into the base protocol. There were efforts to patch over these protocol problems that came later.
I have a Pixel and I remember seeing this specific option in Graphene. But that still leaves the devices you connect to anyway, which still travel with you and probably won’t rotate the identifiers.
Tldr: Bluetooth isn’t entirely the problem. The problem is manufacturers who don’t add privacy features like rotating identifiers into their Bluetooth enabled devices. Many smartphones are doing this these days.
E.g. modern non-cheap devices (iphone, pixel, general higher level android, airpods, apple watches, other modern headphones etc.) have those, and are not really track able like this.
I’d say that it is Bluetooth, because the Bluetooth guys didn’t build resistance to tracking and leaking data into the base protocol. There were efforts to patch over these protocol problems that came later.
I have a pixel, I am being tracked. This one element might be better but it is an invasive device.
No GrapheneOS?
I have a Pixel and I remember seeing this specific option in Graphene. But that still leaves the devices you connect to anyway, which still travel with you and probably won’t rotate the identifiers.
Get a faraday pouch.