Comment on Mozilla Foundation - Tell Amazon to Fix this Big Security Flaw in Ring Doorbells

doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The problem is that it becomes a race to the bottom. People who buy Rings and Echos and Fire Sticks and Google Homes and Android Phones either don’t care about their privacy, don’t know about their privacy or can’t afford privacy.

  Then other brands try to compete with these products and it is a race to the bottom.

  Privacy is a luxury, but even then, sometimes manufacturers will create a false luxury brands but still exploit customer data. Just look at the list of car manufacturers who were recently called out by Mozilla. Just look at Google Pixels vs iPhones.

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  • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I buy Android phones exactly because I can unlock them and get rid of all Google crap. Try de Appleing an iPhone, instead.

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    • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not everyone has that luxury, even those who are technically capable of removing it.

      I don’t want to get into an Apple/Google / Know-Your-Product debate, but how do you know you removed all the Google Crap?

      You only way of knowing what is on your phone is if you start from scratch with something like Ubuntu Touch and compile from source; even then, how do you know the manufacturer doesn’t have an embedded “phone home” chip?

      At some point you have to decide whether to avoid Crapware completely or go with just the crapware from someone you can trust.

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      • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        1. one can learn
        2. I can monitor DNS queries rom my own adblocker DNS server and all my DNS queries are forced through it. All other DNS servers includind DoT, DoH are blockes/redirected.
        3. See 2)
        4. A good start is to buy stuff you know you (almost) completely own. Thus, non-iStuff

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  • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I get that, but has it not always been like this? We’ve been badly and dangerously copying stuff since we as humans started to invent things. I’m amazed even tjat nobody blew their gead off or want blind yet from some cheaply copied VR headset, but I might still be cheering too soon…

    I know it’s not a good thing, but it always existed cause it provides a way for lower incomes to gain a bit more equality by at least getting to experience the functionality of an otherwise too expensive product that was carefully certified for safety…

    So it just seems weird to me to suddenly remark something that has always been there, unrelated to my opinion about it… 😅

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What?

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  • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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