dunestorm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Subscriptions are a plague on our society. No wonder piracy is on the rise when even simple apps require a fucking subscription.
dunestorm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Subscriptions are a plague on our society. No wonder piracy is on the rise when even simple apps require a fucking subscription.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or when a product requires an app to function instead of just putting some buttons on the thing. The apps also tend to want access to everything too. 🙄🤦♂️
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because the device you bought is just a gateway for the company to access the real product, you. You’re paying them so they can access your information.
The sad reality of today.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The sadder part is how most don’t seem to give a fuck about this.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Products are usually priced lower than cost and seem like a good deal to the average consoomer, they don’t think about why it’s so cheap.
See free Amazon Alexa deals for example
gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 year ago
Solvable: just put these apps on an old smartphone with nothing else on it and that you don’t use anymore then put it on the guest wireless network without access to anything else 😁
Good luck to look for something is not there…
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unfortunately they often force round trip to go through their Internet services, so the local app won’t work without Internet and their device will be a paperweight when they retire their support
gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 year ago
No problem. The app would be able to connect to their internet services, it only do it connecting to your local guest network that is connected to internet but have not access to anything else on your local network using wifi, from a phone that has nothing else on it so so SIM, no contacts, no navigation cookies and so on. At least some other useless app like itself.
It is not the perfect solution (which would be to not need an app) but at least you neutralize any kind of spyware/data harvesting since there is no data to harvest if not the one generated by the app itself.