What more can you ask for?

That sounds like exactly what I want.

They all do. It seems to be something that Google is enforcing, unless you use an alternate Bluetooth method called Companion device pairing, which none of the scale makers seem to be aware of.

On a per app basis. The scale knows where I am when I step on it.

But then it won't even try to connect via Bluetooth.

I just tested this.
1. disabled Location perms for Wyze app
2. restarted phone
3. started Wyze app, and selected scale
4. connected and downloaded latest scale readings just like always. Connection was sub-second, no discernible lag.

I'll give that a try with the scale I've currently got that I was going to send back until I found out they all work that way.

They don't have to do it that way I found out. It's apparently perfectly easy to allow Bluetooth connections without requiring that location be turned on.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/companion-device-pairing

It was once thought that bluetooth was very power hungry. The offered solution was to only turn it on if in the physical presence of a known device. That doesn't work very well at all. Too often you need to connect to a device that may not be at a constant physical location- like your ear pods, speaker, laptop or car. So now the idea of turning down (or off) BT by location no longer makes any sense.

Android geek words, sorry.

Bottom line- if you have one and you can make it work, might as well keep it. As cheap as they are, the shipping becomes significant.

Or at least computer science and privacy geek. I'm going to try your work around, and if that fails just use it as a regular scale. What are you going to do when computers become so much like people? Object-oriented programming, I'm telling ya.

...you have the web enabled fridge. Dave Barry said that the scale might tell the fridge to lock you out.