• @BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    12616 days ago

    Absolutely can’t stand the “I have nothing to hide” response. Like y’all aren’t parroting Nazi propaganda.

    • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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      6516 days ago

      “nothing to hide”

      just wait until your smart fridge notifies your insurance company (who knows you’re diabetic) that you just bought a gallon of NOT sugar free ice cream. think they’ll give a rat’s ass that it’s not for you? i bet they’ll be more than happy to raise your premiums either way. or worse

      • @HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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        1616 days ago

        I am in the minority but if i ever had a fridge that’s costing me money like that it would never be a brand I would ever associate with ever again and the current one is being tossed ASAP. I’m also not connecting fridges to my wifi either because why should it be?

        • sunzu2
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          3016 days ago

          Now apply this logic to your phone and your car… Because they are already doing that

          • @HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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            1416 days ago

            You got me on the phone, but my car is from 2007 and doesn’t even have Bluetooth lol so I am good on that one for now. I do try a little by removing all the stock apps, no social media except this, and lock down my network to block as many sites that report home from lists online. Since I’m home 90% of the week, if not more, im at least doing more than most would.

        • @glitchdx@lemmy.world
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          1016 days ago

          ring doorbells can connect to the Internet through each other. Imagine a fridge made by amazon that uses the same network. Now imagine amazon giving discounts to apartments making it more attractive to cheapskate landlords. I can imagine insurance companies paying amazon surprisingly small sums to make this happen.

    • @entwine413@lemm.ee
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      1916 days ago

      When someone says this irl, I like to ask them if I can go look through their underwear drawer.

      Oddly enough the people with nothing to hide usually say no.

      • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1016 days ago

        Underwear drawer is nothing compared to their actual phone.

        If they have nothing to hide, then you should be able to install a mirroring app so that you can log onto their phone at anytime for any reason.

        I don’t get any takers on this either.

        • sunzu2
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          316 days ago

          You are a creep… Sundar and Tim are not🤡

      • This reminds me of when a neighbor reported to the landlord that we were smoking weed indoors. She claimed she could smell it in her own apartment. We weren’t (and weed is legal where I live, so it’s a moot point.) When the landlord came around, we let him come in and smell our apartment. He found nothing.

        So we suggested that the landlord go smell HER (the narc’s) apartment to confirm how bad the smell is. Guess what? She refused to let him in.

        If she ever attempts to complain again, the procedure now will be to investigate her apartment first. If she refuses, we won’t be bothered. So yeah.

    • sunzu2
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      1316 days ago

      It is a weird cope and it is wild how that’s the default response to vast majority of the people.

      Is bootlicking programed into human DNA?

      I don’t get it. ESP being smug about it to boot.

    • okgurl
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      116 days ago

      I’m not parroting anything. I just also realize the vast scale of the data imo makes most of it worthless outside of demographics ad targeting lol

      • @A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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        1916 days ago

        the vast scale of the data imo makes most of it worthless outside of demographics ad targeting

        Not when each point is matched to a unique machine (i.e. user) ID. It’s not anonymous, it’s “anonymized” which is just snake oil (replace your actual name with a unique ID).

        Also, I find ad targeting bad enough all by itself.