Is "find my mac" broken?

[saltukkos]

Quite a long time ago I was experimenting with privacy settings and decided to enable the option "Show location icon in menu bar when System Services request your location".

Spoiler: Screenshot

After that you can see, that "Find My Mac" and "Setting time zone" accessing your location like every few minutes. It's quite often, but I can justify that for search reasons, in case my mac is lost.

But there is a big problem: apple doesn't show you locations, collected in that way. So, if I disable network on Mac and then open icloud.com/find, it says "mac is offline" and doesn't show the last location. It actually only shows old locations, that were retrieved during previous usages of find website when device was online.

So what is the reason for "find my mac" service to access my location in background every few minutes if I can't see it? Does Apple collect this information for other purposes?

P.S. I don't have an iPhone, so I can't check if Locator app shows collected locations, but I hardly believe this behaviour is different.
I attach screenshots, where you can see, that "Find my mac" accessing my location while I'm writing this post and after a few minutes, when I disabled the internet and checked the location on the icloud.com/find, it shows me only old location from yesterday (last time I checked it when Mac was online).

Spoiler: Proofs

 

[saltukkos]

Upd: same behaviour on Ventura (original experiment was on Monterey)

 

[appltech]

You'd better eat apple and do it quietly.
Jokes aside -- even if Apple (or other company) lurking on you, they won't show their activity, no matter what system option are activated.
Thinking it could be a beam ping, or some services (like a hamster in a wheel) routinely touching some related stuff, so the icon is blinking.
As far as I understand there's some apple mesh when somebody's iPhones locating other's AirPods and etc. without touching any specific options.

 

[saltukkos]

You'd better eat apple and do it quietly.
Jokes aside -- even if Apple (or other company) lurking on you, they won't show their activity, no matter what system option are activated.
Thinking it could be a beam ping, or some services (like a hamster in a wheel) routinely touching some related stuff, so the icon is blinking.
As far as I understand there's some apple mesh when somebody's iPhones locating other's AirPods and etc. without touching any specific options.

Thanks a lot for your point of view, I actually don't believe apple is secretly watching me, of course it's just a joke.
But it's kinda strange, because I can leave icloud.com/find opened on another machine and then all the locations will be saved and I will be able to see last location of my Mac.
So I need icloud.com/find to be constantly opened to ACTUALLY use this feature. That's a bummer