Homeowner Baffled After Washing Machine Uses 3.6GB of Internet Data a Day

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Who buys a washing machine with WiFi?
The washing machines I use are controlled with an app, because they’re in the basement of my building and that’s how we all pay to use them. it’s a shitty app though; the previous one would tell how many washers were available, so you’d know if it was worth lugging your laundry downstairs. The one we have now doesn’t even have reliable “all finished” notifications. But it’s simple to set an ordinary timer on my phone.
Convenience is how they’ll get you. Combined with landlord greed in this case.