> reject all devices that come with any amount of closed software or firmware.
Implementing that policy would mean not owning a mobile phone, a car, a television, microwave, or washing machine, etc.
Implementing that policy would mean not owning a mobile phone, a car, a television, microwave, or washing machine, etc.
(Edit: PinePhones are cheaper than I thought.)
So you can read into that, "This is how profitable it is to abuse your users."
Smart TV companies make more money selling behavioral data now than they do selling TVs. Streaming stick companies are the same. Roku basically gives hardware away at cost in exchange for the juicy data streams coming off it (their "how we sell your data" "privacy" policy is a hysterical read, they grant themselves permission to scan your network and report other devices on it should they care to).
The more practical advice at the moment seems to be "don't buy anything with an internet connection if you aren't 100% OK with it tracking your every movement".
Seems like that's only going to last another year or two with 5G and shit like Amazon Sidewalk making every single device internet connected.
And thankfully, you can still find washing machines and microwaves which don't spy on you.
Keep your old stuff people cos, soon I'm sure _everything_ will spy on you and track you!