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I picked up a nice four probe wireless thermometer today. The big advantage is a long-range base station with an actual display and controls that work without a phone app. I tried to connect their phone app to the actual device and it wanted me to set up an online account.
No.
Let me make this real fucking clear: THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON THE INTERNAL TRMPERATURE OF THE TURKEY IN MY OVEN NEEDS TO BE SHARED WITH A SERVER OUTSIDE MY HOUSE. NONE FUCKING WHATSOEVER.
"What harm is there if...?"
Wrong answer. This information is not relevant to anyone but me. Not every moment of my life, not every data point around me needs to go beyond my property line. This telemetry does not need to exist and it's taken for granted that it should by people who do not act in my interest.
It's not paranoia, it's just basic autonomy and privacy. No, seriously, nobody besides this household's residents need to know the temperature of food in this house. This shouldn't be a controversial stance, much like nobody besides the phone owner has any need to know the geographical coordinates of their phone. Heresy!
If your hardware device doesn't work without an app or the cloud, it's junk, full stop. Full. Fucking. Stop.
@arclight Well ... OK ... but you and I and every other cell phone user pays a tax every month to support 9-1-1 service, and part of that is that your phone must track its location and make that available to fire/police/ambulance if you call for help.
The rest of it is surveillance capitalism, yes, and some would like to eliminate the 9-1-1 connection on ideological grounds. But it's there until the law changes.
@arclight If I wake up at 5 AM having a heart attack I want the ambulance crew to know where I am.
@AlgoCompSynth @arclight It doesn't need to, and doesn't, report location for E911 purposes until the 911 call is made. This is a completely irrelevant and erroneous apologism for surveillance.