haroldfinch

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This is a mystery you don’t want to solve.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Recently, a major ISP in the Netherlands was determined to be streaming metadata from within their customer’s networks to Lifemote, a Turkish AI company.

Here’s a report in Dutch: tweakers.net/…/odido-router-stuurde-analyticsdata…

This is just the latest one to get caught doing it, but determine how comfortable you are having your internal network exposed to a 3rd party.

I’ve used personal/non-ISP modems and routers for 25 years because I’m not comfortable with it it. At all… But hey, you do you.