Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by Ken_At_EM on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:29PM (#32359989)

I sincerely desire to avoid having a mobile, internet connected device that equips many sensors and cameras in my home that is designed, manufactured and supported by a Chinese company.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by ev1 on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:42PM (#32360198)

I don't want this with an American company either. Local only.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by Ken_At_EM on Friday August 05, 2022 @08:46PM (#32363682)

The only true way to go. Honestly nothing has made me consider going device free like all of the telemetry these days.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by lostlogin on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:52PM (#32360320)

Amazon isn’t exactly pure here, can we have neither?

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by Ken_At_EM on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:32PM (#32371755)

Yes we totally can. Honestly, the idea of telemetry is general enough that it can and should be legislated. At the very least products should advertise that they produce telemetry when connected to the internet and have an option or have to distribute the knowledge of how to disable it.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by jjav on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:57PM (#32362896)

I sincerely desire to avoid having a mobile, internet connected device that equips many sensors and cameras in my home.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by Ken_At_EM on Friday August 05, 2022 @08:48PM (#32363695)

Also agree.

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