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How I Hacked My Air Purifier to Remove Cloud Dependency [Detailed Write-Up] (jmswrnr.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Jesus Christ.... Air purifiers are connected to the internet now??? What's next? My fucking toilet paper holder?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

A lot of devices are doing away with physical remotes in favour of a shitty cell phone app. It's cheaper, and they get the added benefit of selling the user data to have the necessary infrastructure pay for itself.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Fucking hell

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Shit’s getting smart…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're probably also double dipping by:

Using referral links to get a cut of the sales; and,

Selling the data to third parties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh absolutely. You know they are.

"Strangest thing, every time I go to take a dump my phone lights up with spam and ads..."

[–] stoy 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, obviously the toilet paper holder needs cloud and AI, how else can the toilet paper holder company provide the optimal toilet paper despensing experience.

Also, please note that with Poopy (TM), you are not just simply buying toilet paper, you are part of a global community, and as a part of a global community, we offer environmentally friendly Poopy Paper (TM), that works with our propriatary technology, allowing Poopy (TM) to order more Poopy Paper (TM) only as needed, because we care.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

"Shits better with Poopy™!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

"Thank you valued customer, for buying air purifier premium"