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Weirdly eightsleep apparently is sending 16GB of data per month worth of telemetry. It's been pointed out that that's about enough for a live audio stream of e
by cameldrv 1y ago
Weirdly eightsleep apparently is sending 16GB of data per month worth of telemetry. It's been pointed out that that's about enough for a live audio stream of everything that happens in your bedroom. It can't be cheap to process that much data.
These wifi based smart home devices just fundamentally don't serve their customers.
1. You pay money for a device
2. You pay money for monthly service
3. They sell your private data on the backend, not to worry though, it's "anonymized", but of course it gets sold and then deanonymized
4. AWS goes down and your house doesn't work
5. Eventually they go out of business or get bored and you have to buy and install all new stuff.
- greycol 1y agoI mean not to defend the telemetry philosphy (my smart home setup is local only with a couple of tell-tale heart exceptions[1]) but I'd expect that any cheap sensor net where your trying to infer data from indirect sensors would be grabbing as much data as possible especially if it didn't have strong local processing. But yeah don't buy products that don't work local only, if they require online the temptation will be to great at some point to abuse that requirement. [1] They're slowly driving me insane and I'll destroy them for the peace of mind at some point if an update doesn't brick them first.