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Well, yes, that's what those cheap "smart" devices do. Or does anyone think cheap smart would fit into that device? Rule of thumb: if a device needs internet access, it is spying on you.
!homeassistant@lemmy.world on a isolated vLAN is my goal for "Smart" devices.
Yes, but some devices simply don't work without calling home, or have 99% of their brain in a cloud. For those cases, the vLAN does not help.
Then don't buy those devices. If you have any excuse as to why you "can't do that", then there's zero point in complaining. I'm not saying your complaints are invalid, and companies should be held accountable and criticised. But as long as people buy privacy violating products, companies will continue to violate privacy.
Very valid and true point, but that requires companies to openly admit that they've made their devices to not work if it can't phone home, and no company is gonna do that. At best, they'll tell you it needs internet access, but even then they'll probably downplay it.
Either that or some poor sacrifice will have to be the guinea pig and buy the thing to test it and tell others. Ah, I guess Consumer Reports could do that at least.
valetudo.cloud/
Thankfully there are groups to replace boards or flash some devices. I need to keep better bookmarks to plug them.
There's a version of every device that doesn't phone home. I switched to HomeAssistant a couple years ago now, and I think all of my stuff is finally local as of a few months ago, including my robot vacuum.