Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge

• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  goal post moving …

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Either way you need to interact with your thermostat to change it, why add a vulnerability to it that the company may break it at some point?

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• Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Log in every day? Many, if not most, smart thermostat apps have location based features to automatically handle the use case OP had mentioned. You can set it up one time and pretty much never need to interact with it again.

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  • krakenx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The smart thermostat that came with my house has that “feature” and I hate it. If I don’t walk past the thermostat for a few hours, it assumes I’m not home and then lets the house turn into an icebox.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So your thermostat is tracking your location by GPS to know when to turn on?

    I mean, I guess at least I can see how someone might benefit from it I suppose. I certainly don’t want that though.

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    • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nobody was asking what you want.

      Nobody here is trying to sell you on one of these, you just jumped in to tell us how you cant fathom why someone would want one and were offered a reasonably common use case as an answer.

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      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wait until they find out about how cars are tracking your every movement

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