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JG JamGosBTC@nostr.theorangepillapp.com 1 year ago
I don't have one, but if I did, I wouldn't get rid of it. I would unplug it turn when I'm home, and then turn it on when the house is empty and make it listen to 1984 on Audiobook on loop.
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Bfgreen _@briangreen.net 1 year ago
I don’t know how anyone with a “smart” anything can still be surprised at all of the data they are voluntarily bleeding out.
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BTCbeeRancher BTCbeeRancher@primal.net 1 year ago
Never had Alexa in our house, only have non voice type Roku devices, and the couple Crapple devices I have have had any access to Siri blocked for all apps. Sucks to do it again after every new iOS version, so mostly family is switched to Pixels
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Cerebrum cerebrum@nostr.com 1 year ago
Roku is one of the biggest data collecting companies out there. Their whole business model is to sell targeted ads based on your data
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Farside 1 year ago
I buy dumb things, but it's getting harder to do. It's getting to the point where I'm going to have to buy appliance and physically remove the electronics I don't want in there. The trouble is, if I were them, I would code the appliance to stop functioning if the microphone fails. That means I will eventually have to clone, modify, and reflash the microprocessor. I really don't want to make a business out of that because I really have better things to do. But I see this coming.
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FernandoTheKoala FernandoTheKoala@primal.net 1 year ago
I don’t get it….we all know that we are listened to/spied on all the time, so we either give up all electronic devices (phone included) or what? And what do they do with all the data they gather? They just try to sell us shit, as long as you can manage that I don’t see any issue
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BTCMagician bitcoinmagician@nostrplebs.com 1 year ago
I was never willing put any of this surveillance tech nonsense disguised as convenience/home automation bs in my place for this exact reason. Even if it wasn't in the TOS or whatever before now. Cost/benefit analysis was pretty straightforward
Jameson Lopp's avatar Jameson Lopp
Amazon is removing the ability for Alexa to process your requests locally, which means everything you say to it will be sent to Amazon. Today is a good day to remove corporate surveillance devices from your house.
Ars Technica
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
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Boniz23⚡️🇮🇹₿ 🏴‍☠️ Boniz23@nostrcheck.me 1 year ago
Now we are going more and more towards the world of control! Big companies will be able to do what they want with us. We are spied on everywhere. At home, on the street and now if we get to the cbdc (in Europe) they can turn us off with a click. Orwell was right.
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BTCbeeRancher BTCbeeRancher@primal.net 1 year ago
No disagreement here, but can’t live a perfectly anonymous life. Having a family that is not all onboard the BTC train, some compromises are made. My Pixel is running GrapheneOS, have not been able to get them onboard with that either yet… Life continues, so I do what I can and try to educate and help others along the narrow way. Rather like the Gospel, eh? ;-)
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hasky hasky@primal.net 1 year ago
i think the same with apple , everything you say to Siri or apple intelligent will be sent to apple for improvement , man can always option NO , but man can not use Siri or apple intelligent .
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hasky hasky@primal.net 1 year ago
yes with Alexa or Siri , man can options NO , but not use the features .😁 all Ai now with voice also do the same , only if man subscribe pro , then man can options no for them collecting your voice conversations.
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