Feel really guilty, my one family member gave me this. I don’t use much google stuff anymore and I really dislike the company as it gets more intrusive. Is there anything I can do with this thing besides give it away? Nothing is worse than getting a gift that you can’t use.
There is a stereo microphone and a camera in that thing. What good would Tor do in that case? That data would still make its way to google, unless you can root the whole thing and put a custom OS on it.
I’m not running TOR on the nest. That would be dumb. I’m mentioning this is coming from a whole other end of technology. I like privacy. Google is not very private.
oh ok i thought you were considering tunneling that things traffic through tor somehow
No, because the data would still need to find a way to google services
They have microphones. They don’t have cameras.
Oh i thought it did the motion recognition with a camera, but it actually uses a type of radar.
https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/10388741?hl=en
I don’t know if that’s better or worse