@[email protected] to Privacy [email protected]English • 2 years agoPrivacy respecting cleaning robots?message-square20fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down12file-text
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Are there any robot vacuums/mops that respect privacy; that don’t map your house and phone home with the information?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years agoBruh, just don’t give it your WiFi password. They don’t have their own cell phone plans or satellite uplinks.
minus-square@BluetreefroglinkEnglish32•2 years agoMany of them can only be controlled from a smartphone app that requires both the phone and the robot to access the cloud. ☹️
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoYikes. I hadn’t realized. I had a great neato robot that was totally offline. The new version wants to be controlled through your phone. F that.
minus-squarePupBirulinkfedilink2•2 years agothe apps do provide significant benefits… it’s not just “because data”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoIt’s just frustrating that companies make these nice and helpful apps, and then they pretty much always try to invade your privacy if you use them.
minus-squarePupBirulinkfedilink2•2 years agooh for sure! that part is totally BS when you’ve bought the product already
Bruh, just don’t give it your WiFi password.
They don’t have their own cell phone plans or satellite uplinks.
Many of them can only be controlled from a smartphone app that requires both the phone and the robot to access the cloud. ☹️
Yikes. I hadn’t realized. I had a great neato robot that was totally offline. The new version wants to be controlled through your phone. F that.
the apps do provide significant benefits… it’s not just “because data”
It’s just frustrating that companies make these nice and helpful apps, and then they pretty much always try to invade your privacy if you use them.
oh for sure! that part is totally BS when you’ve bought the product already