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[–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This may be so, but personally, I'd rather loose the $ value in the fridge, once, due to a compressor failure than to have the data of how I interact with it and bloody advertising thrust into my face, over the span of its working life.

A little pain later is worth so much more than 10 years or so of annoyance.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Agreed, the only functionality that should be active if it's connected to the internet is sending an alert of a failure. Sadly, no company that has a way to serve you ads will choose not to use it... 😮‍💨

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Consumers had all the power... that is, until they started voting with their wallet by buying appliances that could connect to the internet (or that had a screen installed on them).

    Once manufacturs saw that their bs was selling, we'd lost the battle.

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