Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then don’t buy those devices. If you have any excuse as to why you “can’t do that”, then there’s zero point in complaining. I’m not saying your complaints are invalid, and companies should be held accountable and criticised. But as long as people buy privacy violating products, companies will continue to violate privacy.

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  • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Very valid and true point, but that requires companies to openly admit that they’ve made their devices to not work if it can’t phone home, and no company is gonna do that. At best, they’ll tell you it needs internet access, but even then they’ll probably downplay it.

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• besmtt@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  valetudo.cloud/

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• Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a version of every device that doesn’t phone home. I switched to HomeAssistant a couple years ago now, and I think all of my stuff is finally local as of a few months ago, including my robot vacuum.

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• Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thankfully there are groups to replace boards or flash some devices. I need to keep better bookmarks to plug them.

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