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.

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  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
    6·
    10 days ago

    Sadly most chips contain backdoors especially Intel and AMD. Unless a performant open source RiscV chip comes along everything has spyware

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      5 days ago

      Even then, just because the design of a RiscV chip is open source doesn’t mean that’s what is being printed.

        • gif8287@lemmy.mlBannedOP
          2·
          8 days ago

          Well, that’s frustrating. But if we want to break free from all this, we have to start somewhere. We can’t have a computer without a chip, but at least on the software side, we might be able to find manufacturers like Framework for other devices that don’t come with ads and telemetry.

          • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
            3·
            8 days ago

            Framework does actually support a RISCV chip already which is admirable. They’re doing good work in that regard. But that is very much a development laptop, it can’t run serious work yet. Even for basic browsing it’s nearly unusable.