So you sacrifice your privacy to buy a device that tells you to get away from another device?
I don't understand this way of solving problems.
I don't understand this way of solving problems.
Not sure how devices or privacy have anything to do with the problem.
When you could just set an alarm on your computer to get up and walk around in and hour or two.
The advantage of the device is that it doesn't interrupt you if you've already taken 250 steps that hour.
I take it you own a smartphone based on this previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19688327
Even if you don't own a smartphone, the loss of privacy to Fitbit is minimal, in my personal opinion. If you do own a smartphone, adding a Fitbit to the picture means an infinitesimal loss of privacy, too small to even be worth talking about. Fitbit has a financial incentive to keep your data private. Can you say that about every app on your phone?
It's so gross, I don't want to be part of it anymore.
So I think you're not going to change my mind about this.
Until we start saying no this can't happen anymore. It will keep on.
We are all culpable.