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How much proof is there that smart tvs and phones listen to you?
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don't need any such "proof". the whole industry has lost any and all benefit-of-doubt privileges, for ever. they don't get an opportunity to gain a foothold in mi casa and possibly be in a position to do harm.
I don't get the idea that after all the shit they pulled someone's like "well maybe this new thing's nice".
those are immoral people with zero compunctions about doing anything that hurts you, your community, and humanity as a whole. we are in an adversarial position and you'd do well to remind yourself of that constantly.
I look at my friends who do this even though I advize them not to. For them, data is invisible and out of sight, out of mind. Their TV is a consumer device like IDK a toaster or washing machien. They put it online with no real thought to data or privacy. From their perspective this is normal. Their neighbors all do it with their TVs. Their friends all do it! I am the only one who makes a warning to them. Everyone else they know does it. Who wouldn't want a "smart" TV???
They don't understand tech very well and they feel like what they see most people doing must be good. They are not thinking about the eroding effect on their whole society from normalizing dragnet surveillance and total privacy loss. It's too abstract, and the allure of the shiny is too much.
Same here. im the crazy one because I dont want zucc listening to me in my home. I can't stand normies dude. Brainwashed.
Puedo yo poner in foothold en tu casa?
the English would be un pie, and you can drop the yo :)
Oh, no the preocupes, el uso de foothold aquí fue una elección artística
I'm gonna stop you there. I'm okay with no benefit of the doubt in terms of them being bad actors, but your worldview still has to be built at the bones and joints out of things known to be true otherwise there's no stopping you from believing every conspiracy with no guard rails.
I don't think there's yet a specific smoking gun on this front, but I think once there is, then it is okay to presume it likely happening in other instances. But no smoking gun just yet.
you're ignoring the important part - who that's coming from.
analyzing a new shit-sandwich from the shit-sandwich-shop to determine "does this one have shit in it" is a valid academic endeavor, but hardly something you'd spend one second of your life pondering.