> we are about to enter an era where our personal devices not only don't work exclusively for us but instead work explicitly against us. About to? LG smart TVs

> we are about to enter an era where our personal devices not only don't work exclusively for us but instead work explicitly against us. About to? LG smart TVs send filenames on connected storage devices back to LG, Google's phones by default (and until they were caught, even if you explicitly disabled it) send your location to Google for logging, that is then accessed by police with geofence warrants, printers add tracking dots to deanonymize you, Intel and AMD refuse to sell CPUs without their management engines (except to special customers), printers want "authorized" ink, and all of DRM is explicitly anti-user. We are already firmly in that era, even if you ignore China.