Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh...
by Sir_Substance on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:22AM
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People are giving you a lot of shit for this, but I agree. #1 was enough to swing it for me.
Unfortunately, my room mate bought two of them anyway, and so I've spent the last 6 months unplugging one of them every time I go to the bathroom.
By the way, they also aggressively throw multicast traffic around your network and upload at least 10 megabytes an hour to google even when idle.
My current speculation is that they are tracking android and possibly non-android devices as they move from network to network so they can better map who knows who.
Unfortunately, my room mate bought two of them anyway, and so I've spent the last 6 months unplugging one of them every time I go to the bathroom.
By the way, they also aggressively throw multicast traffic around your network and upload at least 10 megabytes an hour to google even when idle.
My current speculation is that they are tracking android and possibly non-android devices as they move from network to network so they can better map who knows who.