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The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? (unknownuniverse.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Mainstream tech advice treats cheap Wi-Fi smart plugs as harmless convenience, totally glossing over how much telemetry leaks out to overseas cloud servers by default.

Expecting casual users to set up VLANs and firewall drop rules just to stop a £10 light bulb from phoning home is a bit of a joke.

True privacy means local control without corporate middlemen.

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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

Sorta, then ESPHome updates or something and everything breaks until fixes are made. It's certainly a lot more knowledge required to set up and manage them than most people have or care to learn about just for some smart devices.

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