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I can confirm. I don't want technology in my house I don't have full control over. All these "smart devices" that run through smartphone apps in the cloud can fuck themselves. The amount of access most people give these corporations into their lives is insane to me.
Agree. That's why I use ZigBee devices, they have their own offline network.
Softwares like Home Assistant are the only acceptable smart home solution.
I really like the data - to see how weather and my activity influences temperature, air quality, network... I can absolutely see, just in the temperature data, when I get out of bed; air quality shows when I cook, exercise, open windows. Nobody who's not me needs that data, so all the sensors plug into an RPi or, at most, connect through zigbee/bluetooth. I can't even imagine what They can infer from Smart TV or wifi refrigerator, and cameras can fuck right off.
But I can see where, if you like the data but can't figure out how to manage it yourself, cloud devices could seem pretty attractive. Techno-magic and fun to be part of, and there's so many people saying that privacy just doesn't exist anymore. Probably people with an IoT security camera in their bedroom.