Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues

Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by coleifer on Saturday November 23, 2019 @09:18PM (#21617948)

Yeah it's dystopian as hell. What an incredible amount of waste, too. The storage, the engineering hours that go into it, the electricity and bandwidth...all to track you a little better so you can be sold more shit.

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Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by MobileVet on Saturday November 23, 2019 @09:23PM (#21617966)

Yea... if there is real value in something I adopt it. But only if it actually decreases a life complication. Many times the overhead involved isn’t worth the gain (to me at least)

I revisit the idea of a NAS at least once a year... each time I come to the conclusion it is more hardware to configure and keep up to date and just not worth it (being the fun of it)

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Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by mbrumlow on Saturday November 23, 2019 @09:20PM (#21617961)

Would you feel the same if you had 100% control of the data ?

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Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by MobileVet on Saturday November 23, 2019 @09:24PM (#21617970)

Depends on the application, but that definitely is an important factor for me.

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Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by netsharc on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:46AM (#21619580)

I can't share this sentiment that it's all to track and sell you shit. It probably started out as a good idea, a virtual assistant that can tell you stuff by you just asking it with natural speech. But since this is capitalism, sadly someone asked "But how can we make money out of this?".

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