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> Lately, every app I install, wants bluetooth access to scan all my bluetooth devices.

Blame Apple and Google and their horrid BLE APIs.

An app generally has to request "ALL THE PERMISSIONS!" to get RSSI which most apps are using as a (really stupid, bug prone, broken) proxy for distance.

What everybody wants is "time of flight"--but for some reason that continues to be mostly unsupported.



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