It's not because Tasker is constantly scanning while the device is off
You can change the frequency in Menu / Prefs / Monitor.
Unfortunately, Android requires that an app specify it's permissions even if they are never used, which means that permissions for all of the things which the user could potentially ask Tasker to do need to be specified.
If you are still concerned, consider that Tasker has over 25,000 downloads at the time of writing and any abuse taking place would quickly be discovered.
Tasker never directly uses Internet access for anything else.
Many people use Airplane Mode at night e.g. to save battery. If you also have a Cell Near profile that detects when you are home, it would become inactive at night if Cell Near wasn't sticky.
A couple of points:Notify
action ?To solve the shortcut problem, you can always use a widget though.
For notifications:
As a convenience, the Exit task with such profiles is replaced by an extra Enter task in case you have a lot to do with that profile.
Note that the tasks you specify execute in the order they are specified, their actions do not alternate.
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