Chris Liss on Nostr: Have Vodafone here in Portugal, they offered my wife a special deal for higher speed ...
Have Vodafone here in Portugal, they offered my wife a special deal for higher speed (1GB) internet and a new cable box, same price. I told her to take it obviously.
So the internet is flying now, and we get the box delivered. A week later I get around to setting it up, and it’s a Google Smart TV box, and basically it can spy on your TV watching habits.
So after connecting it for five minutes and trying to opt out of the spy settings, only half successfully I unplugged it, pulled out the old box which still works fine.
Basically, I think what’s going on is Google subsidized Vodafone to offer better wifi in exchange for sending its customers a “better” box that allows Google to get info from them.
So I’ll keep the fast wifi, reject the box. Wonder if they’ll ever realize.
So the internet is flying now, and we get the box delivered. A week later I get around to setting it up, and it’s a Google Smart TV box, and basically it can spy on your TV watching habits.
So after connecting it for five minutes and trying to opt out of the spy settings, only half successfully I unplugged it, pulled out the old box which still works fine.
Basically, I think what’s going on is Google subsidized Vodafone to offer better wifi in exchange for sending its customers a “better” box that allows Google to get info from them.
So I’ll keep the fast wifi, reject the box. Wonder if they’ll ever realize.