Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here!
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoRecently I read an article about smart devices uploading and downloading over 1GB per day. I tried to find the article again but all I can find is stores selling smart fridges etc. Search engines are broken. I asked chatgpt, which was able to find articles. How fucked is this. Boring dystopia. Anyway, here are some sources.
tomshardware.com/…/your-washing-machine-could-be-…
www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/s/F5ETernz6f
www.reddit.com/r/SmartThings/s/HY2E0uOBiH
In the following article they talk about devices sending up to 19MB per week, but only text (so again insane amounts of data considering it’s only text).
consumerreports.org/…/smart-appliances-and-privac…
The following is about researchers finding lots of thirst party domains when analyzing IoT traffic from Smart devices.
The following is an academic paper on how even encrypted data isn’t safe from Smart devices. Bit off topic, but still interesting.
Osan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was able to find some links using duckduckgo including the same article from “Tomshardware” so at least that still works.
Again I don’t know why a washing machine would need an internet connection it’s not like you can remotely load it.
I mean I do understand the appeal and usefulness of smart homes and some IoT devices but companies are pushing AI and internet connectivity like it’s some kind of magic that makes any product better. I mean it would be nice to have a centralised panel to view your usage patterns and consumption but even then you don’t need all this overpowered tech stuff.