It is so difficult to find modern electronics without telemetry and ads. Smartphones, laptops, TVs, home routers, security cameras, cars, game consoles, e-readers, projectors, 3D printers, fitness trackers, speakers, and even some printers. Why can’t customers be free from this data collection and advertising? It’s not that we don’t care about it. There simply aren’t many alternatives, and the few that do exist are either more expensive or offer fewer features. Seriously, we need a list of products we can buy and use directly without worrying about telemetry or advertising.
The following list is updated at https://lemmy.ml/post/52706206. Please note that this list may contain errors.
- Laptop: Framework Laptop, System76, MNT
- Anything else that doesn’t come with ads or telemetry built in?
Buy? That’s where you went wrong.
The less you buy, the healthier the society.
Trade with neighbors instead, make your own.
Use FOSS!
But to the extent you do buy, it is nice to know.
For example, even for an open hardware design, you need to buy parts.
But some things are either possible, but already nicely packaged by someone else (my opengarage I could have built, but it was well worth it to buy). A video doorbell I don’t see good open designs for, so the “part” is the doorbell itself. A bed cooler has open designs, but they call on you to basically buy a donor commercial product to use for parts.
Donate to FOSS devs!