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> It feels like living in the Star Trek universe to me. I have a smart speaker in every room. This is literally what these companies are preying on, don't you
by 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
> It feels like living in the Star Trek universe to me. I have a smart speaker in every room.
This is literally what these companies are preying on, don't you see?
- emodendroket 5y agoIt is literally what they're advertising. "Preying on" seems a bit loaded as a description.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoExcept that's what it is. You don't really think they sell these things for the cool tech aspect do you? They don't sell it to better peoples lives, that's just a side effect. Same can be said for just about anything.
- emodendroket 5y agoIndeed, you could "say it about anything." But "don't you realize they're just selling you that to make a profit?!" would sound like an inanity if someone said they liked, say, the bread a bakery down the street sold, or a keyboard, or the Xbox.
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoIt would be more apt if the bread contained nano bots that phoned home after analysing your stool to report on what other foods you eat, or if the keyboard logged every keystroke to some remote API for analysis
- emodendroket 5y agoMany if not most retailers do sell information about your purchases.
- maccard 5y ago> You don't really think they sell these things for the cool tech aspect do you? They don't sell it to better peoples lives, that's just a side effect. It's not a binary one or other. Are you honestly saying you believe that the engineers on the alexa/echo teams are only there because they want to "prey on" you, and not because they get to do cool stuff?
- datavirtue 5y agoStill haven't seen evidence of "a better life."
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- selfhoster11 5y agoIt's an unfair trade, but the fact is that you do get a Star Trek like interface. For some, privacy is an acceptable trade-off for this kind of service.