Why do you want a fitness tracker.
What gets me with fitness trackers is the data trail, not the step count.
The “data trail” part is why I’ve never stuck with a tracker for long — half of them basically want you to make an account and turn on location-ish permissions.
When you say they “want you to make an account and turn on location-ish permissions, ” which permission was the dealbreaker for you — like background location specifically, or just the general “always allow” prompt? I might be wrong here.
