Mainstream tech advice treats cheap Wi-Fi smart plugs as harmless convenience, totally glossing over how much telemetry leaks out to overseas cloud servers by default.
Expecting casual users to set up VLANs and firewall drop rules just to stop a £10 light bulb from phoning home is a bit of a joke.
True privacy means local control without corporate middlemen.
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most are just intentionally made ignorant of why they should care and will start to care once informed of how it impacts them personally.
they’re like mini-republicans in that respect – they dgaf until it impacts them personally.
My experience is the opposite they know and they don’t care.
They’re like maga – they think they know, but will never truly know until it bites them in the ass like the Latinos that voted for trump and ended up facing deportation because if it.
And even then it’ll take a lot of time and continued pain to get them to acknowledge it – also like the Latinos for trump. Lol