There are a number of other options listed, but that is one of them.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 4 months ago
TL;DR “buy our VPN”
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 months ago
A VPN wouldn’t even help there. The spies are not in front of your door, but directly in your house.
F04118F@feddit.nl 4 months ago
TL;DR: Don’t buy Mesh WiFi, especially if offered at a low price/subscription by your ISP. Use old-fashioned routers and access points.
hobovision@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I get why ISP provided routers and some brands of mesh router would collect and sell data but what is it about “mesh” that is particularly bad here? I have a cheap TP Link router that is apparently mesh compatible but it seems like a traditional router in all the other way. Should I be concerned?
F04118F@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Obviously, I can’t tell you about the privacy implications of every internet roiting device on the planet.
I was just trying to provide a more complete and longer TL;DR than the one I was responding to.
Sounds like you know what you are doing as well as anyone could, you don’t need my TLDR
Evotech@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You state that mesh is much worse for privacy than traditional access points but refuse to elaborate?
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 months ago
To me it seems more nuanced.
First, a VPN won’t solve much because this garbage will still be able to log connection periods (when you are home), signal strengths changing over time, (where are you in your home), and traffic bursts (when are you doing something on your phone or other devices).
Second, this is not about mesh WiFi, as I understand. Install OpenWRT, and the mesh function of that won’t do any of this.
The problem is with new (but probably preexisting too) router brands who’s sole purpose is making all the unknowing customers into a product, but stealing their private life and giving it away for money (or anything else).
The problem is basically that a facebook-like company has got deep insight into your network, which you can’t avoid using, especially if your ISP forced you to use these garbage.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 4 months ago
Well said… Two weeks before the equivalent i posted moments ago.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just buy old Ruckus units and run the mesh on their Unleashed firmware. Still worse than wired backhaul, but better than running a VPN entirely internal to your own network.