How do you how shitty it is or not? Have you examined their code? Do you trust them blindly to let them run arbitrary code on your device? They are preferring to shove their app into our devices for many many reasons that non of them are for our benefit.

And uninstalling right after is closing the gate after the horses are long gone

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What a sane person would want to install a shitty carrier app just for that? There should be a way to do it via their web ui in the least

Not sure why you got downvoted; I agree with every word. What’s the solution though? How to handle this disconnect as a developer?

I think that was op of the top comment here said - that they post it for everyone, without expecting a profit, for people to enjoy. But scummy actors are using their art to gain profit in immoral methods.

To bring the 2 points together - once something is online(fully agree with what you said) bad actors will inevitably use it to gain profit and commoditize it.

Totally, although the thing is I bet one day tvs will come with a built in sim card, or worst yet will disable themselves until there’s an active internet connection or some other scummy method

How will that work? Will they cover the subscription fee for the sim anywhere in the world? Or do you mean the fridge owners will cover it?

“Smart” fridges are the dumbest shit ever; given that, pi hole or some ad blocking DNS? Block access to Samsung servers?

Don’t understand people who are willing to let all that data pass through 3rd party servers

I’ve seen and heard some fucked up shit in my life but damn tech and ai just keep giving some novel sadistic shit each fucking day.

Its slavery.

Fifty-two percent of surveyed workers believe they are training AI to replace other workers’ jobs, and 36% believe they are training AI to replace their own jobs. 74% were concerned about AI’s contribution to the spread of disinformation, 54% concerned about surveillance, and 47% concerned about the use of AI to suppress free speech, among other issues.

Medidwhy do we allow this to happen just that some sadistic fucks would get richer?

That’s exactly what I always wanted from my earbuds – fucking cloud mmgt what a bunch of geniuses