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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by andrepd on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:45PM (#15554561)
>Amazon and Google are caught up in a dumb contest to see who can produce the best hockey-puck-sized speaker that can add items to your shopping list

But you know why it is so, don't you? The allure for an information company of having an always-on, always internet connected, high-sensitivity microphone, running proprietary software doing god knows what, the allure of having such a device in as many homes as possible is only too obvious.

The only thing more shameful than them pushing this garbage is the consumers' willingness to eat it all up.

Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by PopsiclePete on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @06:42PM (#15554928)
Which is why you buy it, and when not at home, play really loud, awkward and uncomfortable recordings of someone having bad, sweaty, cringe-inducing sex. For hours on end.

If you're into software, you could make it exciting. Perhaps write a scraper to strip the audio off porn clips, mix it up with old Khruschev speeches?

Could be a tactic to fight systems like these - overwhelm them with garbage data.

Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by SllX on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:08PM (#15555370)
Overwhelming with garbage data is definitely something you can do with social network trackers, it's definitely something I engaged in when I was most active on Facebook. That said it seems to me the far better solution, if you actually value your privacy, is to give up the convenience it would offer and simply not let systems like this into your house.

In a fight to protect your privacy, the only way to win is to not willingly give up your data, even if that means not making use of new systems or taking active countermeasures against tracking systems.

Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by andrepd on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:18PM (#15555866)
Overwhelming with garbage data is definitely a good tactice to pollute the nice data they collect. See https://adnauseam.io/