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Yes, and this makes it even worse. I recently bought a Sonos. Deliberately chose the one without mic and Alexa. But Sonos are tracking the hell out of everythin
by gingerlime 6y ago
Yes, and this makes it even worse. I recently bought a Sonos. Deliberately chose the one without mic and Alexa. But Sonos are tracking the hell out of everything. Usage tracking on by default, and even their non opt-out-able “functional” tracking is just riddiculous. And that’s in a country covered by the GDPR and ePrivacy directive.
...so I’m clued enough to notice, care and able to block most of it. But my mum and so many others sadly aren’t.
- soperj 6y agohow do you block most of it?
- gingerlime 6y agoIn general at home I’m using Nextdns across all my devices including the router. uBlock origin extension on my browsers. The Sonos specifically is now blocked on my router... the problem with some devices however is that I might actually want them to connect to the internet, but I have little control about what payloads they might be sending and where.
- ssss11 6y agoI use pihole to block sonos, tv etc phoning home but while still allowing them to play music or videos from spotify, netflix etc. it works pretty well
- Bancakes 6y agoIf you're on any UNIX, grab a RAW hosts file off https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/block#Formats https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/block#Formats and put it in /etc/ I use Unified. On FreeBSD and Linux, the OS handles the hosts file really fast, faster than ublock origin. Windows crawls to a halt with a large hosts file for some dumb reason.
- nuker 6y agoUse incognito mode in browsers. It clears cookies, trackers can't work without persistent cookies. I use it by default and only inconvenience is logging in more often, but its just two more clicks. And a good adblocker too.