People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
> “This is getting ridiculous and I’m about to just toss the whole thing and move back to Google,” one Redditor said of the “full-volume” ads for Alexa+ on their Echo Show. Oh sweet summer child, Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
Exactly. It’s not the smart part of a device that is the problem. That’s an extreme overreaction.
The problem with most smart devices today is that they are proprietary, non-fully libre and open source, for-profit, cloud-connected, corporate committee designed spyware, adware, and bloatware.
Devices that are fully FLOSS (firmware, hardware, software) and based on open and free standards and protocols are awesome, but they get easily forgotten.
The Internet and your technology can be so much better. Demand it.
Z-wave or zigbee. They use an alternative to wifi.
User in tandem with a open source system like home assistant.
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