I feel that they will soon have built-in 5G that you can’t disable, to phone home.
That would be incredibly expensive. 5G modems are not cheap, and I can’t imagine there’s enough consumer demand that would justify the additional costs. They’d be in clearance bins within a year or two.
I’m sure skme niche displays already have embedded 5G WWAN modems, but they’d be commerical displays for digital signage, videoconferencing, etc. Those won’t be cheap, or consumer standard issue anytime soon.
That would require a subscription to a 5G carrier, which would be crazy expensive here.
I can’t remember which brands, but some have been found to connect to any open wifi network to do it.
They basically did the same thing several decades ago with Kindles and whispernet. It’s not really that crazy.
Sure, but that required a partnership with carriers for a legitimate use. I hope none of the carriers would allow use of their networks for things that don’t need it, but who knows?
You’re right. They care about our privacy and would never do anything to sully that trust. Certainly not through a partnership with an electronics manufacturer that pays them to do it…
Lucky (?) for me I live in a mobile service blackspot…
HelloHotel@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Like @circucritic said, its expensive to use 5g modems here, leach off the negbors guest wifi, hostage the consumer until they give you internet or use 3g or 4g modems.
Buy a model no later than 2021 or so, or rip out the antennas/put it in a faraday cage. (Yes, tinfoil works)