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Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Do not buy BS internet connected devices period. There was a time when internet connected devices did exactly they were supposed to do and nothing more. There is literally no reason why most of these devices can't act as their own server and keep your data local and private. Corporations have become far too greedy to trust their cloud won't sell you out in every way it can. The ONLY two reasons a manufacturer adds internet connectivity are:

To monitor and collect as much data as possible and/or:
To implement a subscription service for something that normally wouldn't require monthly payments.

Corporate closed clouds have proven time and time again that they can't be trusted.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I do home automation.. And no, its not...

They do it because everyone wants to control these appliances when away from home. And port forwarding isn't an awesome idea honestly.

A lot of the devices we used to port forward honestly, ended up getting hacked because of out of date firmware or whatever

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

There is literally no reason why most of these devices can't act as their own server

As much as I dislike cloud stuff. The cloud is by far the easiest solution for support and average users.

Your not dealing with end users calling in and having to diagnose why two devices on their network are not talking to each other.

As long as both your devices have Internet it will work.