I suspect it hasn’t changed too much. Maybe there were some people on the edge and the ease pushes them over it, but stalker behaviour isn’t a sudden rush. It

I suspect it hasn’t changed too much. Maybe there were some people on the edge and the ease pushes them over it, but stalker behaviour isn’t a sudden rush. It seems more likely that someone who is already a stalker adopts something that makes it easier. There was an article a few weeks/months back where a mother was unhappy that her daughter was angry when she found that the mother has planted an AirTag. The mother was point blank saying stuff like “I’m not stalking her I just want to know where she is”. Iirc the daughter was an adult who didn’t live at home. In other words stalker/possessive behavior isn’t a trivial thing, and like most behaviors of this sort isn’t something that can appear out of nowhere. That said, I do think it would be nice if apple could provide a mechanism for other manufacturers to integrate stalker protection directly, because the current app based solution is far from ideal.