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TP Link Router wants to share client info with third parties (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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My router (TP Link) said it had a firmware update. I'm a responsible adult, so I update my firmware. When I log back in, I get this popup that they'd like to share my clients info.

cool...

A screenshot with text on top, a generic red background image in the middle, and buttons on bottom saying "Maybe Later" and "Authorize". The text on top says "We are now better at identifying clients! To accurately identify your connected clients, we will share your clients' information to a third-party service if you authorize it. We won't save your private information. For more details, refer to the Privacy Policy [in red, presumambly a hyperlink]".
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[–] 85 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

https://openwrt.org/

I've never personally used that one, but it gets recommended a lot.

I've been using DD-WRT for 15+ years, but that's for no particular reason other than It's what I found first and haven't had any reason to switch.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I used DD-WRT for 9 years and had no reason to switch until I was forced to. At some point after a firmware upgrade my routers began to occasionally lose their configurations after power failures. Months of troubleshooting, logging errors and recreating configs made no difference. I had been concerned for some time that the project seemed to rely on one guy, and although what he's doing is amazing, it is not possible for him to thoroughly test each firmware release. When one of my routers lost its config when I was 200 miles away and I lost alarm monitoring I was forced to make a change.

    Open-WRT has been a really pleasant surprise. It's completely stable on the same routers and the feature set is unbelievably broad. The learning curve was a bitch though.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was on DD-WRT back when WRT54G but the DD-WRT devs don't really get it,
    They make the bad compromises, and most of their initial contributors appears to have moved on to OpenWRT.

    At this point DD-WRT isn't just another alternative, it's very stale while OpenWRT is still evolving rapidly and has the larger contributor community. And they put as much emphasis on performance, bloat reduction and efficiency as they do new features.

    I have a 8MB nvram TP link archer C7 and it's actually faster in the latest version, that's basically unheard of in all of software !

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