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Just updated my controller VM (for two access points) to 6.1.71. Good thing it's on a ZFS volume, and that I made sure to snapshot it before updating, because I
by flyinghamster 6y ago
Just updated my controller VM (for two access points) to 6.1.71. Good thing it's on a ZFS volume, and that I made sure to snapshot it before updating, because I just rolled it back and dropped a pin in /etc/apt.
Ye gods. Video ads in my management interface? Are you KIDDING? This is ridiculous.
Sigh. Everything is turning to ashes. Every. Fucking. Vendor. has decided that it's perfectly OK to spam you and hoover up your personal data. And no, don't say "Apple" since I don't trust them any more than Microsoft or Google.
In any case, it makes me very hesitant to "update" my EdgeRouter, for that matter. :(
Ubiquiti has been skating on thin ice with me for a while, after their earlier telemetry kerfluffle, where they eventually did the right thing. But this is beyond the pale. The only thing I've seen worse was years ago when Belkin started hijacking HTTP connections to serve ads for censorware. [0]
At least the access points are capable of running OpenWRT, but I don't relish the prospect of reflashing them. The ERPoE-5 is the lone EdgeRouter I don't see in OpenWRT's hardware table. :(
[0] https://www.cnet.com/news/web-hijack-riles-belkin-router-users/ https://www.cnet.com/news/web-hijack-riles-belkin-router-use...
- Terretta 6y ago> ”And no, don't say ‘Apple’ since I don't trust them any more than Microsoft or Google.” Apple. Because only one firm in your list has billboards focusing on privacy (keeping your data on your device), code enforcing that, and policy and code requiring developer full transparency in the consumer app store. It’s an interesting exercise to ask: If you don’t trust Apple any more than Google, what would it take for you to trust that a high end consumer hardware company would be less data privacy exploitation motivated than a purely ad revenue driven company?