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> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, why are you not using the reply function?

Voting with your wallet doesn't help if everyone does the same thing. Not everyone is willing/able to live without technology.

It's also very hard to figure out what exactly they do before making the purchase, and many vendors change their stance with devices already in the field. Look at TP-Link for example: They suddenly stopped allowing local access to their Kasa switches 2 weeks ago. No more integration with Home Assistant. Yes, they have decided to revert it already. That doesn't mean they can't do it again. I had bought 7 of these plugs because they offered local access. Now I'm a lot less sure of this brand. But the money is already sunk into it.

https://home-assistant-guide.com/2020/11/17/tp-link-kasa-sma...

Because soon you won't have a choice with this.

These changes are always gradual until they become ubiquitous. Some changes are stopped in their tracks due to legislation.

This is becoming an example of frog boiling in action. The usual retort to mentions of frog boiling is that the frogs jump out but in this case, it's just bigger pots of boiling water all the way down.

How is it beyond your understanding? What is so hard to understand about the fact that 99.999% of people won't have the knowledge or the inclination to do that?

wait till 5g becomes viable and "your" devices will stop relying on your WiFi

>but it cant ignore my router forbidding all external dns communications except for it

DNS over HTTPS says otherwise.

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