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[–] TheWiz@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For me it's more the privacy aspect. IOT devices tend to be network weak points. Things like Alexa constantly listening. I could see myself self hosting home assistant maybe in the future but not of the things smart devices enable are really a value add for me personally.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You don't need home devices to lose your privacy like that. Your phone's themselves are constantly listening in.

Was talking to the wife in the car one time about buying a new pair of tennis shoes, and when I got home that evening and watched YouTube videos and such, I was getting so many tennis shoe ads it was actually quite spooky.

[–] TheWiz@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Oh definitely, I go to a lot of effort to try and mitigate it (graphene OS, no Facebook, social media, pihole for network wide ad blocking, simplelogin for email aliasing, no smart devices) but there's always plenty of invasive apps/services even you're privacy conscious.