Don't worry. Soon our toilets are going to get us to agree to TOS. I REALLY DON'T want to share THAT kind of data. Soon we can't use our toilets unless we agree to a TOS.
We moved into a new house 4 years ago and had to shop for a new clothes washer/dryer. Went to a local appliance store. The salesman was pushing a "smart" appliance, that would send you a text when the load is done, blah, blah, blah. We considered it, but then came to our senses. Why do we need a washer to send us a text? Just more tech that will spy on you and eventually break, or end up charging you a subscription. We ended up buying a used "non-smart" set for half the price of of just one new washer. Been working great so far. We can hear the end-of-cycle buzzer throughout the house. No text needed! Tech is being put into the simplest of things. People are stupid thinking it's cool and necessary. Wake up people!
@@SuperGirl-tf2wnno, it's so a script kiddie can hack your toaster and reformat the software to hack your computer or add it to a bonnet... And burn your toast because they didn't try to retain the original functionality when they cracked it.
I disagree. We have a smart washing machine and it's great for us. Our house is tech driven and it fits our home and style very well. We can start the machine remotely, which means we can load up the machine, go visit some relatives without knowing or having an exact time to be home to and we just stat the machine when we feel that it's soon time to go. When the washing machine ends a reading of the humidity level is taken in the washing room as the set point. When we open the door to the washing machine the air dryer starts automatically. The air dryer runs until it has reached the same humidity - a few percent or for a maximum time. Then it shuts off for an hour and then starts up again and runs until it hits its target again. There are a lot of appliances I wouldn't get the smart version of, but washing machine is one of those that you can integrate very well in to your smart home and it can really improve your life.
When "how many loads did you do this month" becomes a monetizable fact in your personal record, you might have an issue with how much advertising controls your life.
Yeah same girl! I love gaming and like having a big TV but most modern TVs always have evil crap in them its so depressing lol. Finding an alternative is hard
@@richardsanchez5444 ... My mom gave me a coffee machine that is sort of great, makes coffe at specified times, neat.... Had to give it its own little walled garden on the wifi :/
You're missing that the US doesn't care about it's citizens and will gladly sell them to corporations so they can get more money from lobbying and insider trading. Companies have corporate socialism here and citizens can f off is basically what we have.
Example: Having a fridge connect to the internet to keep stock of your food sounds great, untill it starts selling your data to your health insurance, you get sick and your health insurance refuses to help you because their data shows you bought "to much" of what they consider "unhealthy food". And before anyone goes "well you should have eaten healthy" they will dictate what's "healthy". This will happen if they can get away with it.
I was thinking the same thing will start happening. The fact that your roommate can buy a lot of junkfood or put leftover fast food in the fridge and it can affect you is absurd.
Spot on! If we are paying for health insurance, they will pay for whatever health care that we deem that we require. If they contest me on that, I will win and they will get nothing.
A home assistant guide would be absolutely awesome, and I would watch it in full multiple times and advocate for anyone I know to set one up as well! Would love to see that
Here is my guide to home assistants. Don't get one. They are pointless and stupid. Just get off your lazy ass and take the 1.5 seconds to do the extremely mundane crap you are using this idiotic thing for.
As someone who has been running home assistant for a long while, I think a guide is pretty necessary. Some of the things that you have to do to get home assistant running properly are not intuitive at all
Internal sensors inside the washing machine can figure out the humidity, material, and size of the clothing in question (This allows the machine to figure out what clothing you're washing. For instance, a suit might be heavier and made out of more water absorbant fabric than a regular t-shirt). You really only need to know a few bits of info + user inputted wash times (like what cycle settings), wifi network data, as well as common usage times to triangulate a LOT of potential data. Not sure if LG machines work like this, but I've seen the insane data you can get out of a "Smart" washing machine. Thing is, the data collected isn't really a problem since it doesn't have much value, but if it gets leaked, i'm not sure if people would be fine with their movement patterns and household activity being known to the world, as well as what kind of clothes they wash (think underwear types)
@@aeson000The data collection is also a problem because LG is selling it, which is no different to leaking the data with a paywall attached. Heck, sometimes hackers will sell private data they got from companies. If these hackers somehow got an executive to sign a EULA that allowed them to harvest the data and sell it, then this process should be about as legally fair as LG collecting and selling your data.
A home assistant setup guide would be awesome. These videos are increasingly making me more paranoid and concerned about making sure that any "smart" device I use works locally and without leaking data to these bottomless vacuums.
There should be no such thing as "privacy policy" when it comes to washing machines. They are home. The only serve one purpose. No wifi or ethernet needed. They are not "clouds". And they don't need one. It is just you put dirty clothes in and you take clean clothes out.
i mean If it has an app as in this Case, there has to be privacy Policy. But it should be as simple as "we don't share your WiFi pw with others, and we don't share your location" At maxima it collects how much data it uses and sends that back to them or so
So many use apps attached to these things when they worked without them since their invention. I think people need to stop being so reliant on apps. I know smart TVs you can't do much if you want them to work as they should other than what Louis said but we should minimise our use of the ones we don't need and make sure to opt out when we can.
I perfectly understand the desire to have a washing machine that can notify you that it's finished. But this is a local use case. It doesn't need to send data anywhere outside of the local network or over Bluetooth. The privacy policy should simply say "your data is transmitted only to local network devices. It is the user's responsibility to ensure a secure local network." Nothing else is necessary.
@@darrennew8211 is this true? Not saying that it doesn't sound plausible, but also could easily be something to make Tesla look bad. Elon Musk is a little controversial, so people sometimes make stuff up.
@@ThePaperKhan Or, instead of asking me, you could google "tesla video naked garage" to see how many reliable news sites reported on it and read all about it. Then you can judge for yourself.
@@ThePaperKhan Search: "Tesla employees watching cameras" on Google, read the Reuters article. '[...] Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers, opens new tab in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked.'
@@ThePaperKhanoh it’s very true, it’s a huge problem (or at the very least *was*) at Tesla, employees have access to basically all video recorded by the Tesla, even when it’s parked in your driveway or garage. It may have changed, but Louis did do a video on it, I’d highly recommend watching it. If I can find a link to it I’ll edit it here later.
We have been buying LG products since DVD player times, because we've been happy with them. We recently got a larger home and were expecting to buy a larger LG TV. That's not going to happen now. I'm grateful to Louis for informing people who aren't necessarily focused on following all that's happening in these areas, but still do not wish to support these (too common) practices.
Buy a professional monitor that is just a monitor, and hook it up to a media PC. Modern TVs bundle the monitor with an obsolete-upon-sale “smarts”. That’s wholly unnecessary. There’s no need for a TV anymore. If you get OTA, use a tuner dongle for the PC. It’ll usually work better than most “TVs”.
Won't help with LG ThinQ (and many others for that matter) - there is no local option. Although HomeAssitant plugin exists, the plugin itself talks to the LG cloud and not to the appliance directly. The appliance does not have any standardized local interface and if you try to fake the cloud locally (which will be A LOT OF work), you will most likely run into problems with https certificates (the appliance wants to talk to particular domain and checks for the valid certificate - though this is theory and maybe they just skip the check - than it would be possible). Matter may solve this problem in the future if the manufacturers will decide to implement it, HomeKit also works locally and is reverse engineered enough so you don't need apple products and can be made work with HomeAssistand both ways (either get HomeKit devices into HA or export HA devices to iPhones as HomeKit accessory) - but many manufacturers still insists to use their proprietary cloud solutions and unless that changes, there is little hope to make many of these devices work local only.
Speak for yourself, I want LG to count my loads and offer ads for tide and Trojan. Wait, my wife doesn't want lg to count the loads, so I also want the video.
^This. When researching these new fancy HE type washers - I ended uo going on craigslist and finding a used in excellent quality Whirlpool Old Style Agitator machine. Too many problems with those new tech machines.
And this is why you should never buy appliances that connect to the internet. I've yet to see a single appliance where internet connectivity gives the end user some actual value.
The opposite actually Forget even the data gathering and such, it adds to the initial cost of the product AND if it fails but everything else is fine, you have a bricked machine ....... GENIUS
The downside to that is now the "old style" stuff thats left is haphazardly built. Gotta worry about the new Maytag we bought. Didn't have any tos to agree to, but wouldn't be the first time a device was actually data mining.
@VADemon While I don't totally disagree, my mother was hunting down and older style stove recently with the coil burners to replace her gllas-top that's going out. The few she found all had bad reviews across the board. Stuff that would be a dime a dozen on all the old stoves they've gone through. Guess they're all bad now honestly. The new ones only lasted a few years, and if you can find anything old, better know how to work on it, because they didn't bother it seems.
For a guy that had trouble in high school chemistry, your pond chemistry knowledge is amazingly good. 1) You correctly stated a few different times that fish need oxygen which is dissolved in the water. Over the past 30 years or so, several people have tried to tell me fish breath the Oxygen from the H2O. They really think the fish can perform an endothermic reaction to get the oxygen they need for life. 2) You knew that algae doesn't take oxygen as it grows, but only after it dies, and starts to decay. Very few people in the general public understand that detail. The media doesn't often explain it, but you made a special point of making it clear.
Once laws forbid companies from selling your personal information, I'm curious what companies will do next to screw us over. I wouldn't be surprised to see subscription services where you need to pay per use of your washer, dryer, etc. The future is wonderful
Well i have a washing machine which is very smart , once it's done , the " On " light goes off , and it beeps once to say " hey you lazy Fk , get off the couch and hang your clothes on the drying rack "😄
If it just beeps once instead of singing a minute long melody then it's definitely smarter than Samsung washing machines. But to be fair, if those devices hadn't sung anything and only beeped, then they'd have to be called Sam or Sambeeped and not Samsung.
Well if the washing machine is in a different room/floor, then beeping won't help a lot. But for something as simple as "it's done", you can just use any old non-smart device, put a Shelly power metering relay in front of it and use power consumption to determine the state of the device in Home Assistant. I've done it recently for a dumb/cheap air dehumidifier. I can now see whether it's actively running, idling (fan spinning) or not running at all (water tank is full or someone manually switched it off - which never happens because it can be switched on/off through Home Assistant). No data to the cloud and it's just the 30$ or so for the Shelly PM relay.
I'd love it if you'd do an extensive video on setting up home assistant. I was inspired by your video a few months ago with having your own camera setup with frigate. I had no previous knowledge on how to do anything like that, and after a solid two weeks of troubleshooting and installation and additional two weeks of physically installing cameras I finally have peace of mind that my parents have something that can monitor the outside of their home without the ability of any third party to shut them down or spy on them. It's their data and it should stay in their control. You're the best and I hope you and your team at FUTO, keep up the good work! I use Grayjay, your keyboard and the local voice chat option once I paid for them. It's open source software like this that gives me additional hope for taking control of our hardware and software.
Finally, some reasonable question. Imagine yourself as a mine, and the data they are obtaining is a miner. As the mine is getting depleted, it's worth less until you take everything from it and become worthless. We are becoming worthless to them by the day. Their next issue is adblockers. All that info is useless unless they present you personalized ads.
It's really worth pennies, it's not even noticeable money for them... I don't get how they are ok damaging their image so much for such small profits. They risk not selling a device worth thousands of dollars, in hope to get a few pennies per customer...
Louis, i would ABSOLUTELY LOVE for you to do a home assistant guide and a fully indepth one. Its something ive pondered a while, and would love to see your setup. please make it happen!!
No home appliance should EVER be able to connect to the internet! Why do people insint with a smart home? Do they not learn from watching the Simpsons or any other movie or TV show or book that talks about this issue that could very well happen?! Like they warn us about this happening and we STILL do it like c'mon man. It's getting out of hand.
I love the idea of a smart home, but I want a self-contained one not this BS. Also what good is a smart appliance, I have no idea. Smart lights, home security,thermostat, locks and robo vacuum /lawn mower I get. I was really excited in 2018-2019 when a lot of this started to come out , I quickly lost enthusiasm one of the companies that developed these products got bought up by megacorps and became channels for collecting and selling personal data.
Some folks in my family thought I was nuts when I replaced the barrel on my 20+ year old dryer instead of buying a new one. While this isn't the only reason this is a big reason. I want my washer to wash things and I want my dryer to dry things, I don't want them to collect information on me
@user-fo5zv4ld4z are you dumb or something. Why would you be accepting of this lol you should be able to use the Internet without being scammed out of something.
I find those same people nuts for wanting to spend $1000 or more on a new washer/dryer set, not just because it's more expensive, but shopping, moving around both sets and setting them up is even more work which can take up an entire day, whereas fixing just one of them only takes about 2 hours if you know what you're doing, even less if its just a fuse/cut-off and you have easy access to it.
@@vgamesx1 Marketing makes us hyped up for shiny new things being reported on. That's why you should enjoy regular magazines and (in our case) reviews/benchmarks with caution. I've observed this in myself and see it in others.
Louis it makes me smile hearing the banter between you and your girlfriend at the pond at the end. You are so much happier being out of NYC. I didn't realize just how much until today. I think it literally added years to your life .👍😁
Enjoy nature with fun, good people. Enjoying the basic happy things life has to offer makes it all worth it. The turtle, the fishy. Take time for the fishy. It isn't about New York vs. Texas. It was about finally taking the time to slow down and take the time to appreciate that it isn't 2008 anymore, and I'm not rubbing two LP154WP2-TLA1 together trying to afford rent on a place that isn't filled with termites
@@elenabob4953 it’s just a gimmick to give a reason for people to replace the old because of a new useless feature. On small engines sthil and husqvarna are using digital carbs which are much worse than the analog ones
@@elenabob4953 Do you know every conceivable thing about everything you own? Congrats, you can manufacture everything yourself! You're the only human in existence with a brain, and we're all in awe of your perfection.
*Home Assistant Installation, Setup and Use Guide: Just this year alone, literally hundreds of commenters on your many presentations have asked for this very thing. YES! please do. Hell, I'd pay you another Benjie for it. Love ya'!*
A guide on how to set everything up as youve described would be incredibly helpful. I feel the need to protect your privacy is becoming more necessary, but like many, i dont have the knowledge to do the set up myself. A guide would be very helpful!
I'd love to see a home assistant guide! I'd never heard of it until you mentioned it in the video. Especially as more and more appliances and objects become "smart"
Or maybe start a second RUclips channel for these risky tech videos, e.g. called Rossmann Unsubscribe Protection, Rossmann Subscription Fuse, FU LG, or some other catchy name.
I'm so glad that recently when I bought a washing machine with dryer combo I saw some with an app and was like, wtf why would I need that, and bought a normal one. Now I know what the app one would do.
How about my 23 year old fridge I can go to the GE website and order a $334 compressor for, vs my grandmothers LG that is 5 years old and they wanted $1200 for the compressor. She’s getting one like mine.
^This. My Bosch inverter for the compressor fails about every 2 years. Thankfully, one of the forums said the inverter was the same as the GE. Picked up the GE inverter which was 1/2 price of the Bosch!
A full guide on home assist would be amazing. All the corporate spying is getting out of hand and any help on keeping our privacy is very much appreciated
As a certified nontechie, I’d really like to see an extended video on how to set up home assistant because I refuse to connect thermostats, etc., to the Internet.
I'm 24 at this point, I've been watching your content for over a decade now. You have truly enriched my life thus far, thank you. I also thought you should know I've got all of Seinfeld on DVD, will back it up digitally soon to avoid disk rot.
Not to be negative, but I believe disk rot is more possible on disk drives than on DVD's. The files system ZFS is made specifically to combat disk rot. I've never used it myself since it's mostly enterprise companies using it and the support for it in Linux is not great. The easier way would probably be to have a digital copy on a hard drive within a Faraday bag, within a Faraday cage within.... you get my point. Also make sure to have a SHA256 of the ISO so you can check it and see if it is changed.
Cool intention, now make it reality. Otherwise it's just an empty promise to yourself. 😉 Don't you hate liars? 😂 Otherwise, multiple backup spots for incredibly sensitive information is my go to: DVDs + SSDs + HDDs + Cloud. Many methods are hard to keep up, but two copies are still better than only the single last one. 👏👍
Hi Brother! I really FEEL you! I am really looking forward to your video about setting up everything so that the privacy is protected! Thank you. You are simply amazing and the world need more people like you!
Seems like a lot of times, the smarter choice is to have the "dumb" devices. No snooping, no B.S. app, no nonsense agreements, things just work. Also good to see the koi fish doing well, and the nutrient cycle is something to manage. More plants sounds like the right thing.
Same with my mom. She bought one and within 6 months she had to call out a service tech to resolve the reason why it wasn't draining. She, thankfully, never connected it to the internet. So at least that isn't another issue she has to deal with. Why buy a smart washer if you never use its smart features? LOL It's asinine. Plus the liquid fabric softener section drains it into the wash with the detergent? Why? I don't freaking know. It's such a terrible machine.
Yeah, but they can force you to use the internet - isn't that what we are seeing more and more of - after the purchase forcing the internet connection. BTW - don't trust LG on their warranty - even when the admit your product is under warranty it can take you forever and be a hassle. I eventually tried even trying to get them to hold up their end of honesty and just took the loss and got rid of the TV.
@@20NewJourney23 Why buy one?It's the one the store clerk recommended. We are at this point, I don't know where recommend to go shopping. Misleading product pages online or "reviews", overpriced inventory offline and shops that try to get rid of it.
Fisher & Paykel do the same thing. When they added wifi to the washing machine the purpose wasn’t to tell you when the wash was done, it was intended as a way they could collect data and sell it.
It's on-theme with the video. Moral of the story; no matter how much of a paranoid schizo you are, there's somebody out there just as paranoid as you. And remember, you're not paranoid if they're actually after you
Been a huge fan for years now and you never fail to crack me up - "If you enjoy others watching your spouse [being] with somebody else, that probably doesn't include your vacume cleaner!?" Keep doing what you do, for all of us.
I just got an update on my LG wash - FYI lots of wash cycles are hidden behind the app. I was forced to accept the TOS change in order to use the app. Amazing!
@@user-lh5re8jh7u You're correct. All of those fancy digital displays and soft touch buttons cost more than the machine should they fail. My Whirlpool uses a Analog style timer which costs thirty nine dollars to replace.
I wager they will start putting microphones in dryers/washers at some point to be even more invasive, And eventually you will get ads that play during your dry/wash cycles cause greed exists and it won't stop. Oh and you won't be able to use the machines if you're not connected to the Internet so you are trapped into the bs.
Because data has been the new form of currency for the powerful entities in charge of everything for awhile now. They can print actual money. Not that it matters because "money" these days is just a digital value that can be adjusted to the whims of those with the ability to do so. It's all about personal data. It's why everything new in households these days monitors everything you do.
So it can call you a fatass for eating do much ice cream Also ngl I'd love to see everything inside my fridge without having to get up and open the door and stare inside when I'm bored and hungry lol Doesn't need to be connected to the internet just locally cause I'm sure it would save me $15/mnth if I did not have to keep opening it hoping something new magically appears 😂
@@jankoodziej877 I do not post links in RUclips comments, just read through the GDPR and consumer protection laws after that. You'll find it in pretty much no time.
The best part is, you know some of these companies were doing this months or years before they updated the terms of service to tell you what they're doing. And even if you had a way to opt out, they almost certainly just collect the data anyway
I think you should mention that all the politicians that buy LG products including past presidents will be giving all their personal data to LG to sell to people to use to blackmail them. This is actually a national security problem. They are so concerned about TicToc being owned by Chinese and using the data they collect, they should see that the LG, South Korean, products collect videos and layouts of their homes.
Very interested in the videos on how to set up home network and devices without connecting to the Internet and to de-Google as much as possible. Thank you Louis for being consistently awesome all these years!
My neck is starting to hurt under the weight of my tinfoil hat. Every time another company harvests my data from an appliance that shouldn't even have the ability to do so I add another layer. it's so goddamn heavy!
I’d love a guide like that, I’ve been casually looking into it for awhile & I actually trust you…unlike others I’ve watched which is why I’ve been casually looking into it
Yes please the guide on the home assistant is something that would be awesome to have, i have an idea of how to set it up but it would be much easier to see it from someone who actually has more experience than i do with linux.
Louis, we must all look out for the best interests of each other. You do this in spades. My job here is to give your viewers the best alternative to these awful washing machines and dryers. People, when buying a washer and dryer you must go analog. No connectivity settings whatsoever and fewer parts to break. You must buy *Speed Queen* washer & dryer separates. They are the last great washing machine company standing. _Autobots unite! We must defeat the Decepticons!_
@@rossmanngroup I'm doing great, Louis. Thank you for asking. I hope Austin is treating you well. I've emailed you before but you're so darned busy to reply. I will email you again. Have I not come to you for advice about computers? You've been very helpful. So now, donate your LG to someone in need and go buy a Speed Queen TR5003WN !!! 🤣Stay awesome.
Unbelievable that more and more companies are becoming proper scumbags by taking this data slurp route... As always, thanks Louis for the constant heads up 😉👍
This is one of the reasons I love my pihole. I can let the devices connect and then add their requests to the blacklist so they can never connect again
How hard would it be to have a router in line with your internet connection to block all this, or maybe even just flood these companies with fake data- maybe something FUTO could get behind?
I was thinking the same, what if you could block all the telemetry and data collection. If those data are "multiplexed" with other communication data and cannot be blocked, then use the ID assigned by the manufacturer for data collection to sent extra random data and make those collected data useless for identification or ever better poison their AI training 😂
The tech video home assistant idea is very much welcome. I am looking to close off my entire home ecosystem and close off everything from the TV, printer to anything with an electric pulse. Also, nice fishies.
Hey Louis, I was literally thinking before you said it would love if you did a full tutorial on home assist, how to find out which devices are compatible with it etc. Would also be nice I you made a searchable spreadsheet or text based document with a product name, and then three simple categories, Repairability, Privacy, and ownership (not having to pay subscriptions and actually owning the product/not having to see an AD), and then a date that way we can see what was the last date that you updated your listing for that product and if the company has changed their policies since then or you have made a new vide on that product.
Whats hilarious is that there is absolutely no point in connecting it to the internet. You’d imagine you can remotely start the washing machine from your phone, but nope. All the internet does for the consumer’s benefit is notifying them that the clothes are done. Everything else benefits LG.
Why would I even want to remotely start the washing machine from my phone? I have to physically be at the washing machine to load the clothes and the soap, so I might as well start it at the washing machine while I'm there. And the washing machine has a delayed start feature built into the control panel if I don't want it to start right away.
The home assistant guide would be amazing! But honestly specifically the direct remoting into another device alone would be great to learn just in of itself!
Would you say the washing machine airs my dirty laundry?
I'll see myself out.
I love puns, take that - 👌👏😂🙏 !
*Wait, wait. You said you'll be here all week
You could say it uploads the exact size of your daily load.
Nope, come back, that was a good joke!
Yup, your appliances have been collecting a lot of dirt on you.
I REALLY don't want to know what kind of data my memory foam mattress collects.
I think its better you dont know that you dont want that on your conciousness
it collects your dreams. and your taste.
You've given it PTSD...😂
Mattress data is now used in court cases against cheating spouses...oh my!
Don't worry. Soon our toilets are going to get us to agree to TOS.
I REALLY DON'T want to share THAT kind of data.
Soon we can't use our toilets unless we agree to a TOS.
We moved into a new house 4 years ago and had to shop for a new clothes washer/dryer. Went to a local appliance store. The salesman was pushing a "smart" appliance, that would send you a text when the load is done, blah, blah, blah. We considered it, but then came to our senses. Why do we need a washer to send us a text? Just more tech that will spy on you and eventually break, or end up charging you a subscription. We ended up buying a used "non-smart" set for half the price of of just one new washer. Been working great so far. We can hear the end-of-cycle buzzer throughout the house. No text needed!
Tech is being put into the simplest of things. People are stupid thinking it's cool and necessary. Wake up people!
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Correct. Quit buying shit with an Internet connection. What is the point of an IoT toaster? So a script kiddie can hack it and burn your bread?
@@SuperGirl-tf2wnno, it's so a script kiddie can hack your toaster and reformat the software to hack your computer or add it to a bonnet... And burn your toast because they didn't try to retain the original functionality when they cracked it.
I disagree.
We have a smart washing machine and it's great for us.
Our house is tech driven and it fits our home and style very well.
We can start the machine remotely, which means we can load up the machine, go visit some relatives without knowing or having an exact time to be home to and we just stat the machine when we feel that it's soon time to go.
When the washing machine ends a reading of the humidity level is taken in the washing room as the set point.
When we open the door to the washing machine the air dryer starts automatically.
The air dryer runs until it has reached the same humidity - a few percent or for a maximum time.
Then it shuts off for an hour and then starts up again and runs until it hits its target again.
There are a lot of appliances I wouldn't get the smart version of, but washing machine is one of those that you can integrate very well in to your smart home and it can really improve your life.
Could have bought smart and not use the smart feature as well
Now this is what I call money laundering.
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a brain washing machine
Oh, that's a good one!
This is why its important to not ''over digitalize'' your life. Look for good products that are not ''smart'' in any way, just pure hardware.
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When "how many loads did you do this month" becomes a monetizable fact in your personal record, you might have an issue with how much advertising controls your life.
"I'm sorry you have reached your wash limit for the month. Please upgrade your subscription to continue the wash cycle."
@@cirelesten Don't give them ideas
I read this very differently at first...
Does that apply to the data the washer collects, or the vids the robovacuum records?
@@silentlyjudgingyou they already have this idea and it is exactly what they're working up to
And people wonder why I'm always anxious over having to replace tech and appliances.
Yes!
Yeah same girl! I love gaming and like having a big TV but most modern TVs always have evil crap in them its so depressing lol. Finding an alternative is hard
Is it possible nowadays to have appliances that DONT need WiFi or Internet connection?
@@richardsanchez5444 ... My mom gave me a coffee machine that is sort of great, makes coffe at specified times, neat.... Had to give it its own little walled garden on the wifi :/
@@fluffystagbeetle4526 I just use a projector with my computer. Not cheap, but thanks to corporate needs, less privacy invasive.
"SMART" refers to "self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology."
i though that was ""S.M.A.R.T."
The "S" in "IOT" stands for security.
@@agraham57 And also, the "P" in "IOT" stands for Privacy.
@@agraham57I have a pfsense firewall which restricts iot devices from connecting to the internet and it's all managed by home assistant
Not forgetting the silent P in SWIMMING.
Don't quote me on this... but the fact they changed it and does not allow you to decline is ILLEGAL in the EU....
The EU has been much more proactive on such things so that wouldn't surprise me
You're missing that the US doesn't care about it's citizens and will gladly sell them to corporations so they can get more money from lobbying and insider trading. Companies have corporate socialism here and citizens can f off is basically what we have.
And in Australia to some extent
Not true, sadly. Unless I'm just really unlucky.
The EU is a meme in itself.
Example: Having a fridge connect to the internet to keep stock of your food sounds great, untill it starts selling your data to your health insurance, you get sick and your health insurance refuses to help you because their data shows you bought "to much" of what they consider "unhealthy food". And before anyone goes "well you should have eaten healthy" they will dictate what's "healthy". This will happen if they can get away with it.
I was thinking the same thing will start happening. The fact that your roommate can buy a lot of junkfood or put leftover fast food in the fridge and it can affect you is absurd.
That happened with onstar sending driving data to insurance companies without telling the car owner.
Spot on! If we are paying for health insurance, they will pay for whatever health care that we deem that we require. If they contest me on that, I will win and they will get nothing.
Imagine having friends over and they stuff the fridge with beers. Not your beers mind, now you're labeled as a raging alcoholic.
A home assistant guide would be absolutely awesome, and I would watch it in full multiple times and advocate for anyone I know to set one up as well! Would love to see that
Here is my guide to home assistants. Don't get one. They are pointless and stupid. Just get off your lazy ass and take the 1.5 seconds to do the extremely mundane crap you are using this idiotic thing for.
Absolutely, I'd love to learn more about it too
Wonder if he can get LTT to sponsor it.
So would i
As someone who has been running home assistant for a long while, I think a guide is pretty necessary. Some of the things that you have to do to get home assistant running properly are not intuitive at all
I'd very much appreciate that home assistant tutorial, keep up the good work, we need more people like you.
Yes
@@RUclipshandlethefirstPls do a tutorial please
Yes
Yes please, people pay to get education to do this themself all tho they don't have to
Absolutely
Those penalties arn't penalties. They're a profit-sharing
@4:55 _"We don't kink shame here at Rossmann Repair Group."_ 🤣
So nice of him thinking of minorities. lol Being watched by someone without consent and uploading by themselves are completely different thing.
my respect for louis rossmann just skyrocketed upon seeing that
🤣🤣
@@randomperson-qj1oq Your definition of "respect" is shocking.
@@the_kombinator do you not like the lack of kink shaming or something?
In corporate America, TV watches YOU
Hahaha niceeee. Also sad but true.
The amount of information people willingly give out these days would make a 1960s KGB agent cream their pants.
Almost like everyone is on the Truman Show but we're the product.
"Oh come on, how does a washing machine even GET my data?" - Me, audibly, immediately seeing this video
Same, why does it need an app? What is wrong with people.
Internal sensors inside the washing machine can figure out the humidity, material, and size of the clothing in question (This allows the machine to figure out what clothing you're washing. For instance, a suit might be heavier and made out of more water absorbant fabric than a regular t-shirt). You really only need to know a few bits of info + user inputted wash times (like what cycle settings), wifi network data, as well as common usage times to triangulate a LOT of potential data. Not sure if LG machines work like this, but I've seen the insane data you can get out of a "Smart" washing machine.
Thing is, the data collected isn't really a problem since it doesn't have much value, but if it gets leaked, i'm not sure if people would be fine with their movement patterns and household activity being known to the world, as well as what kind of clothes they wash (think underwear types)
@@aeson000The data collection is also a problem because LG is selling it, which is no different to leaking the data with a paywall attached. Heck, sometimes hackers will sell private data they got from companies. If these hackers somehow got an executive to sign a EULA that allowed them to harvest the data and sell it, then this process should be about as legally fair as LG collecting and selling your data.
@@aeson000 So all of this "Smart" stuff makes everyone dumber!
I’ve never connected my LG to the Internet nor made an account to LG.
There’s zero benefit to giving it internet access.
A home assistant setup guide would be awesome. These videos are increasingly making me more paranoid and concerned about making sure that any "smart" device I use works locally and without leaking data to these bottomless vacuums.
you really think that chinese "smart home" devices don't record/collect data and isn't sending it to china?
It's always good to see Louis talk about his pond. Never heard a man so happy to talk about the things he owns.
That's how you know somebody's found happiness. Peace and appreciation for the "small" things in life. 😉👍
Oh just wait until his fish start selling his personal data... They're going to start reporting the water quality to Google
There should be no such thing as "privacy policy" when it comes to washing machines.
They are home. The only serve one purpose. No wifi or ethernet needed. They are not "clouds". And they don't need one. It is just you put dirty clothes in and you take clean clothes out.
i mean If it has an app as in this Case, there has to be privacy Policy. But it should be as simple as "we don't share your WiFi pw with others, and we don't share your location"
At maxima it collects how much data it uses and sends that back to them or so
internet of stings
So many use apps attached to these things when they worked without them since their invention. I think people need to stop being so reliant on apps. I know smart TVs you can't do much if you want them to work as they should other than what Louis said but we should minimise our use of the ones we don't need and make sure to opt out when we can.
I perfectly understand the desire to have a washing machine that can notify you that it's finished. But this is a local use case. It doesn't need to send data anywhere outside of the local network or over Bluetooth.
The privacy policy should simply say "your data is transmitted only to local network devices. It is the user's responsibility to ensure a secure local network." Nothing else is necessary.
@@SteeveYT. it should be as simple as "we only collect crash logs".
"Why is the cleaning bot trying to get in here every time we're naked?"
You laugh, but Tesla employees were passing around videos of a guy walking naked thru his garage.
@@darrennew8211 is this true? Not saying that it doesn't sound plausible, but also could easily be something to make Tesla look bad. Elon Musk is a little controversial, so people sometimes make stuff up.
@@ThePaperKhan Or, instead of asking me, you could google "tesla video naked garage" to see how many reliable news sites reported on it and read all about it. Then you can judge for yourself.
@@ThePaperKhan Search: "Tesla employees watching cameras" on Google, read the Reuters article.
'[...] Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers, opens new tab in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked.'
@@ThePaperKhanoh it’s very true, it’s a huge problem (or at the very least *was*) at Tesla, employees have access to basically all video recorded by the Tesla, even when it’s parked in your driveway or garage.
It may have changed, but Louis did do a video on it, I’d highly recommend watching it.
If I can find a link to it I’ll edit it here later.
We have been buying LG products since DVD player times, because we've been happy with them. We recently got a larger home and were expecting to buy a larger LG TV. That's not going to happen now.
I'm grateful to Louis for informing people who aren't necessarily focused on following all that's happening in these areas, but still do not wish to support these (too common) practices.
Buy a professional monitor that is just a monitor, and hook it up to a media PC. Modern TVs bundle the monitor with an obsolete-upon-sale “smarts”. That’s wholly unnecessary. There’s no need for a TV anymore. If you get OTA, use a tuner dongle for the PC. It’ll usually work better than most “TVs”.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a Home Assistant guide! It would be beyond appreciated. Thanks for all that you do!!!
homeassistant is SO EASY to set up! I hope he makes a guide for it!
Won't help with LG ThinQ (and many others for that matter) - there is no local option. Although HomeAssitant plugin exists, the plugin itself talks to the LG cloud and not to the appliance directly. The appliance does not have any standardized local interface and if you try to fake the cloud locally (which will be A LOT OF work), you will most likely run into problems with https certificates (the appliance wants to talk to particular domain and checks for the valid certificate - though this is theory and maybe they just skip the check - than it would be possible). Matter may solve this problem in the future if the manufacturers will decide to implement it, HomeKit also works locally and is reverse engineered enough so you don't need apple products and can be made work with HomeAssistand both ways (either get HomeKit devices into HA or export HA devices to iPhones as HomeKit accessory) - but many manufacturers still insists to use their proprietary cloud solutions and unless that changes, there is little hope to make many of these devices work local only.
Speak for yourself, I want LG to count my loads and offer ads for tide and Trojan.
Wait, my wife doesn't want lg to count the loads, so I also want the video.
My old white Whirlpool doesn't sell shit except guaranteed clean clothes everytime I pull that knob 🤣🤣🤣
^This. When researching these new fancy HE type washers - I ended uo going on craigslist and finding a used in excellent quality Whirlpool Old Style Agitator machine. Too many problems with those new tech machines.
You'll go blind
Hey, easy!!
@@gaspumprepairservice7009 never change
I'll bet it is easier to fix too.
And this is why you should never buy appliances that connect to the internet. I've yet to see a single appliance where internet connectivity gives the end user some actual value.
The opposite actually
Forget even the data gathering and such, it adds to the initial cost of the product AND if it fails but everything else is fine, you have a bricked machine
....... GENIUS
The downside to that is now the "old style" stuff thats left is haphazardly built.
Gotta worry about the new Maytag we bought. Didn't have any tos to agree to, but wouldn't be the first time a device was actually data mining.
@@MaddJakd As if this new ODM/OEM stuff is any better. Besides marketing this is just another point of failure in some cases.
Exactly.
@VADemon While I don't totally disagree, my mother was hunting down and older style stove recently with the coil burners to replace her gllas-top that's going out.
The few she found all had bad reviews across the board. Stuff that would be a dime a dozen on all the old stoves they've gone through.
Guess they're all bad now honestly. The new ones only lasted a few years, and if you can find anything old, better know how to work on it, because they didn't bother it seems.
Louis I would happily pay (or donate) for you to do a Home Assistant series:
- Overview
- Setup
- Tips and Tricks
- hardware recommendations
Me too.
Yes we need info
Was thinking the same. I would gladly pay 100$ right now for guides to de-Corpo my life
Same
Save your money and just use google.
Private home network or VLAN
i love this guy, talks about stuff and educating us well, then shows us his fish for 10 minutes, thank you
Yes. I'm finding that oddly entertaining!
WAIT! Wait. wait.
Is this machine reporting on the status of my clothes? For the record, those skid marks belong to my six year old.
😂
My skiddies were there when I bought those underpants.
They can use that information for targeted advertising to sell new underwear and toilet paper i guess
Maybe the washing machine can tell me where the socks went that I put in it and only one of each pair came out
Press X for doubt lol
I want to see the guide video!!!
I liked the pond portion a lot.
You're livin' the life, Louis.
Two years ago I railed against a company making Internet connected WATER BOTTLES. I thought that was insane and dumb. It's only gotten worse...
That's still insane and dumb.
@@tricitymorte1stole my thought😂. Are u LG in desguise?j/k.
@@1988nProud No, I don't have their money.
Does it tell you the PH and particulate level of the water inside? Maybe the temp? LOL
@@robertsmith2956 LMAO, no sadly it's not anything that cool. It literally tells you when to drink water.
Nice to see Louis relaxing by his Koi pond instead of being on the verge of shorting some neurons to ground😆
9:32 YES please do a HomeAssistant guide!
you will be inspiring and sensitivising tons of people
For a guy that had trouble in high school chemistry, your pond chemistry knowledge is amazingly good.
1) You correctly stated a few different times that fish need oxygen which is dissolved in the water. Over the past 30 years or so, several people have tried to tell me fish breath the Oxygen from the H2O. They really think the fish can perform an endothermic reaction to get the oxygen they need for life.
2) You knew that algae doesn't take oxygen as it grows, but only after it dies, and starts to decay. Very few people in the general public understand that detail. The media doesn't often explain it, but you made a special point of making it clear.
"We don't kink shame here in Rossmann repair group" is dank meme material. It is screaming "free real estate."
He knows what he’s doing.
True businessman.
It's not a lie its NY real estate.
I came for LG washing machine data collection, but I definitely stayed for the fish and psychedelics.
As someone who hasn't got to that part I'm sorry what
Once laws forbid companies from selling your personal information, I'm curious what companies will do next to screw us over. I wouldn't be surprised to see subscription services where you need to pay per use of your washer, dryer, etc. The future is wonderful
People will just hack them to pirate a washing machine LMAO
@@ukraineball953 you wouldn't download a washing machine
What I'm confused by is them needing to do it noe, back in the day the plan was
Make machine
Sell machine
Use sale money to make machine v2
@patrickkennedy9178 If I could I 100% would.
Well i have a washing machine which is very smart , once it's done , the " On " light goes off , and it beeps once to say " hey you lazy Fk , get off the couch and hang your clothes on the drying rack "😄
If it just beeps once instead of singing a minute long melody then it's definitely smarter than Samsung washing machines. But to be fair, if those devices hadn't sung anything and only beeped, then they'd have to be called Sam or Sambeeped and not Samsung.
I see what you did there lol
Well if the washing machine is in a different room/floor, then beeping won't help a lot.
But for something as simple as "it's done", you can just use any old non-smart device, put a Shelly power metering relay in front of it and use power consumption to determine the state of the device in Home Assistant. I've done it recently for a dumb/cheap air dehumidifier. I can now see whether it's actively running, idling (fan spinning) or not running at all (water tank is full or someone manually switched it off - which never happens because it can be switched on/off through Home Assistant). No data to the cloud and it's just the 30$ or so for the Shelly PM relay.
My old Whirlpool is smart too, when the rinse cycle is over, it stops making a loud spinning sound. 👍
I'd love it if you'd do an extensive video on setting up home assistant.
I was inspired by your video a few months ago with having your own camera setup with frigate. I had no previous knowledge on how to do anything like that, and after a solid two weeks of troubleshooting and installation and additional two weeks of physically installing cameras I finally have peace of mind that my parents have something that can monitor the outside of their home without the ability of any third party to shut them down or spy on them. It's their data and it should stay in their control.
You're the best and I hope you and your team at FUTO, keep up the good work! I use Grayjay, your keyboard and the local voice chat option once I paid for them. It's open source software like this that gives me additional hope for taking control of our hardware and software.
Another LG video.. watch out for another scorpion…
First in the pinned comment?
At this point so many people are selling my data i don't understand how it's worth buying
Finally, some reasonable question.
Imagine yourself as a mine, and the data they are obtaining is a miner. As the mine is getting depleted, it's worth less until you take everything from it and become worthless.
We are becoming worthless to them by the day.
Their next issue is adblockers. All that info is useless unless they present you personalized ads.
It's really worth pennies, it's not even noticeable money for them... I don't get how they are ok damaging their image so much for such small profits. They risk not selling a device worth thousands of dollars, in hope to get a few pennies per customer...
@jankoodziej877 you are missing a bigger picture. Also, it's recommended a tin foil hat if you don't have one.
@@jankoodziej877 A million pennies is still $10000
Its worth alot to ai and feds
I love all you videos but this end is amazingly calming 😁👍
Fishy
Publishing a guide on how you set up your home network would be a godsend!
You koi pond is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing. My day has improved!
yes yes yes please
Louis, i would ABSOLUTELY LOVE for you to do a home assistant guide and a fully indepth one. Its something ive pondered a while, and would love to see your setup. please make it happen!!
I doubt he has one....
I don't have enough words to be able to describe how incredibly interested I am in the guide you are talking about!
No home appliance should EVER be able to connect to the internet! Why do people insint with a smart home? Do they not learn from watching the Simpsons or any other movie or TV show or book that talks about this issue that could very well happen?! Like they warn us about this happening and we STILL do it like c'mon man. It's getting out of hand.
People prefer convenience and ignorance rather than their own privacy nowadays
@@amaurapond True.
@@amaurapond Many are also driven to have the latest and alleged greatest. They will even go into debt to do this.
I love the idea of a smart home, but I want a self-contained one not this BS. Also what good is a smart appliance, I have no idea. Smart lights, home security,thermostat, locks and robo vacuum /lawn mower I get. I was really excited in 2018-2019 when a lot of this started to come out , I quickly lost enthusiasm one of the companies that developed these products got bought up by megacorps and became channels for collecting and selling personal data.
The world is full of an incredulous amount of stupidity.
Some folks in my family thought I was nuts when I replaced the barrel on my 20+ year old dryer instead of buying a new one. While this isn't the only reason this is a big reason. I want my washer to wash things and I want my dryer to dry things, I don't want them to collect information on me
I salute you.
you can still buy "dumb" washing machines and dryers though. well you can in my country. cost about 200 euros or so for one.
@user-fo5zv4ld4z are you dumb or something. Why would you be accepting of this lol you should be able to use the Internet without being scammed out of something.
I find those same people nuts for wanting to spend $1000 or more on a new washer/dryer set, not just because it's more expensive, but shopping, moving around both sets and setting them up is even more work which can take up an entire day, whereas fixing just one of them only takes about 2 hours if you know what you're doing, even less if its just a fuse/cut-off and you have easy access to it.
@@vgamesx1 Marketing makes us hyped up for shiny new things being reported on. That's why you should enjoy regular magazines and (in our case) reviews/benchmarks with caution. I've observed this in myself and see it in others.
Louis it makes me smile hearing the banter between you and your girlfriend at the pond at the end. You are so much happier being out of NYC. I didn't realize just how much until today. I think it literally added years to your life .👍😁
Enjoy nature with fun, good people. Enjoying the basic happy things life has to offer makes it all worth it. The turtle, the fishy.
Take time for the fishy.
It isn't about New York vs. Texas. It was about finally taking the time to slow down and take the time to appreciate that it isn't 2008 anymore, and I'm not rubbing two LP154WP2-TLA1 together trying to afford rent on a place that isn't filled with termites
lmfao the pinned porn bot was gone
if you wanna see it too, just write an email to LG
LG, wtf are you guys doing lol.
LG: MONEY 🦀
Money is tight for everyone
What are the clients doing buying such a machine? How lazy can you be to need a washing machine connected ?
@@elenabob4953 it’s just a gimmick to give a reason for people to replace the old because of a new useless feature. On small engines sthil and husqvarna are using digital carbs which are much worse than the analog ones
@@elenabob4953 Do you know every conceivable thing about everything you own? Congrats, you can manufacture everything yourself! You're the only human in existence with a brain, and we're all in awe of your perfection.
Yes yes 💯 % A home assistant guide would be great and beneficial to us all.. Please make it happen.
There is nothing pure in this world, it seems.
Everything we like is seemingly going down to the dark side
Water is mostly pure
@@PichusBlueberryPiesthe light will overcome
It's a nice day. To Startagaaaaainnn
We need an updated list of companies to support.
Should be a short list. Lets do it
As someone who already has a full homeassistant setup, I would 100% watch you go through yours
*Home Assistant Installation, Setup and Use Guide: Just this year alone, literally hundreds of commenters on your many presentations have asked for this very thing. YES! please do. Hell, I'd pay you another Benjie for it. Love ya'!*
Wait, you can’t even use a washing machine without your data being stolen? LMAO we’re in an actual dystopia
*SpeedQueen TC5 series, TC5000 and TC5003 have none of that bull$hit. Never have and never will.*
A guide on how to set everything up as youve described would be incredibly helpful.
I feel the need to protect your privacy is becoming more necessary, but like many, i dont have the knowledge to do the set up myself. A guide would be very helpful!
I'd love to see a home assistant guide! I'd never heard of it until you mentioned it in the video. Especially as more and more appliances and objects become "smart"
Please make a Manual for setting it up. Maybe you should set up a website dedicated for doing it.
I would appreciate that too.
Or maybe start a second RUclips channel for these risky tech videos, e.g. called Rossmann Unsubscribe Protection, Rossmann Subscription Fuse, FU LG, or some other catchy name.
@@MrMysteryMortalthis is my thought
"Look at how calming it is. I do not care at all about apple not making parts available looking at this" ROFL!
I'm so glad that recently when I bought a washing machine with dryer combo I saw some with an app and was like, wtf why would I need that, and bought a normal one. Now I know what the app one would do.
Yes, please do this tutorial, I think it is important for people to know its even a possibility.
How about my 23 year old fridge I can go to the GE website and order a $334 compressor for, vs my grandmothers LG that is 5 years old and they wanted $1200 for the compressor. She’s getting one like mine.
Lovesausage
^This. My Bosch inverter for the compressor fails about every 2 years. Thankfully, one of the forums said the inverter was the same as the GE. Picked up the GE inverter which was 1/2 price of the Bosch!
A full guide on home assist would be amazing. All the corporate spying is getting out of hand and any help on keeping our privacy is very much appreciated
As a certified nontechie, I’d really like to see an extended video on how to set up home assistant because I refuse to connect thermostats, etc., to the Internet.
I'm 24 at this point, I've been watching your content for over a decade now.
You have truly enriched my life thus far, thank you.
I also thought you should know I've got all of Seinfeld on DVD, will back it up digitally soon to avoid disk rot.
Not to be negative, but I believe disk rot is more possible on disk drives than on DVD's. The files system ZFS is made specifically to combat disk rot. I've never used it myself since it's mostly enterprise companies using it and the support for it in Linux is not great. The easier way would probably be to have a digital copy on a hard drive within a Faraday bag, within a Faraday cage within.... you get my point. Also make sure to have a SHA256 of the ISO so you can check it and see if it is changed.
Cool intention, now make it reality. Otherwise it's just an empty promise to yourself. 😉 Don't you hate liars? 😂 Otherwise, multiple backup spots for incredibly sensitive information is my go to: DVDs + SSDs + HDDs + Cloud. Many methods are hard to keep up, but two copies are still better than only the single last one. 👏👍
@@sykoteddy I feel the support for ZFS in Ubuntu is great. I've been using ZFS with Ubuntu for at least six years.
Hi Brother! I really FEEL you! I am really looking forward to your video about setting up everything so that the privacy is protected! Thank you. You are simply amazing and the world need more people like you!
I would genuinely like to have a home assistant tutorial. Thank you for all that you do, Louis.
Seems like a lot of times, the smarter choice is to have the "dumb" devices. No snooping, no B.S. app, no nonsense agreements, things just work.
Also good to see the koi fish doing well, and the nutrient cycle is something to manage. More plants sounds like the right thing.
"We don't kink shame here at Rossman Repair Group" iconic
I got one of these LG "smart" washing machine and i didn't even bother to have it connnected to the internet. It is a washing machine,
Same with my mom. She bought one and within 6 months she had to call out a service tech to resolve the reason why it wasn't draining. She, thankfully, never connected it to the internet. So at least that isn't another issue she has to deal with. Why buy a smart washer if you never use its smart features? LOL It's asinine. Plus the liquid fabric softener section drains it into the wash with the detergent? Why? I don't freaking know. It's such a terrible machine.
Smart move
Yeah, but they can force you to use the internet - isn't that what we are seeing more and more of - after the purchase forcing the internet connection.
BTW - don't trust LG on their warranty - even when the admit your product is under warranty it can take you forever and be a hassle. I eventually tried even trying to get them to hold up their end of honesty and just took the loss and got rid of the TV.
@@JH-pt6ih Deco routers in a nuttshell... I am still salty about them
@@20NewJourney23 Why buy one?It's the one the store clerk recommended.
We are at this point, I don't know where recommend to go shopping. Misleading product pages online or "reviews", overpriced inventory offline and shops that try to get rid of it.
Fisher & Paykel do the same thing. When they added wifi to the washing machine the purpose wasn’t to tell you when the wash was done, it was intended as a way they could collect data and sell it.
latter half of video: Louis flirts with gf whilst pointing at fish we can't see (also fat-shamed a turtle)
24:29 LOOOOOL
It's on-theme with the video. Moral of the story; no matter how much of a paranoid schizo you are, there's somebody out there just as paranoid as you. And remember, you're not paranoid if they're actually after you
@@rossmanngroupI love that you included that in the video it’s genuinely so funny LOOOL, if that happened to me I’d be speechless
@@YHK_YT I almost fell into the lake
lmao, he fell in love
Wow, I felt the bonding through the screen. That's a keeper.
Been a huge fan for years now and you never fail to crack me up - "If you enjoy others watching your spouse [being] with somebody else, that probably doesn't include your vacume cleaner!?"
Keep doing what you do, for all of us.
I want a guide ! I have been putting it off to learn for ever ! The only source I am willing to learn is from you !
I just got an update on my LG wash - FYI lots of wash cycles are hidden behind the app.
I was forced to accept the TOS change in order to use the app. Amazing!
why does a damn washing machine record data?
Why are they computerized at all? So stupid. More useless junk to break.
because it can
@@user-lh5re8jh7u You're correct. All of those fancy digital displays and soft touch buttons cost more than the machine should they fail. My Whirlpool uses a Analog style timer which costs thirty nine dollars to replace.
I wager they will start putting microphones in dryers/washers at some point to be even more invasive, And eventually you will get ads that play during your dry/wash cycles cause greed exists and it won't stop. Oh and you won't be able to use the machines if you're not connected to the Internet so you are trapped into the bs.
Because data has been the new form of currency for the powerful entities in charge of everything for awhile now.
They can print actual money. Not that it matters because "money" these days is just a digital value that can be adjusted to the whims of those with the ability to do so.
It's all about personal data. It's why everything new in households these days monitors everything you do.
I would LOVE if you published this sort of extensive guide on how to automate your home, PRIVATELY.
Lmao, my friends just got a "Smart" refrigerator and I was like "WHY TF DOES REFRIGERATOR NEEDS TO BE SMART?"
So it can call you a fatass for eating do much ice cream
Also ngl I'd love to see everything inside my fridge without having to get up and open the door and stare inside when I'm bored and hungry lol
Doesn't need to be connected to the internet just locally cause I'm sure it would save me $15/mnth if I did not have to keep opening it hoping something new magically appears 😂
@@jacktringoli3299 Just get a refrigerator with a glass door.
@mpf1947 Having a smart home is literally like having a house with glass walls
If this is from the EU, that's actually illegal to do
It's from the U.S.
The person that first saw this is from the E.U.
It should be illegal in the US too but our government is disfuctional
Source please.
@@jankoodziej877 I do not post links in RUclips comments, just read through the GDPR and consumer protection laws after that. You'll find it in pretty much no time.
The best part is, you know some of these companies were doing this months or years before they updated the terms of service to tell you what they're doing. And even if you had a way to opt out, they almost certainly just collect the data anyway
9:35 Please do make the guide how to set it up! I am currently researching how to do it myself, but I would love to see how you've set it up.
Yes! Make the guide!!!
I think you should mention that all the politicians that buy LG products including past presidents will be giving all their personal data to LG to sell to people to use to blackmail them. This is actually a national security problem. They are so concerned about TicToc being owned by Chinese and using the data they collect, they should see that the LG, South Korean, products collect videos and layouts of their homes.
Very interested in the videos on how to set up home network and devices without connecting to the Internet and to de-Google as much as possible. Thank you Louis for being consistently awesome all these years!
Yes, make a guide Louis, it would be very helpful.
I would certainly be interested in a home assistant guide as well! I would love to have full local control of my smart devices.
My neck is starting to hurt under the weight of my tinfoil hat. Every time another company harvests my data from an appliance that shouldn't even have the ability to do so I add another layer. it's so goddamn heavy!
Just get a Decoy Voice tinfoil beanie! 🤣
@@em0_tion *Yes! Lightweight cloth do-rag*
I’d love a guide like that, I’ve been casually looking into it for awhile & I actually trust you…unlike others I’ve watched which is why I’ve been casually looking into it
Yes please the guide on the home assistant is something that would be awesome to have, i have an idea of how to set it up but it would be much easier to see it from someone who actually has more experience than i do with linux.
Louis, we must all look out for the best interests of each other. You do this in spades. My job here is to give your viewers the best alternative to these awful washing machines and dryers. People, when buying a washer and dryer you must go analog. No connectivity settings whatsoever and fewer parts to break. You must buy *Speed Queen* washer & dryer separates. They are the last great washing machine company standing. _Autobots unite! We must defeat the Decepticons!_
YES!!!!
how are you doing Sir? How's NY? How's work? Feel free to email & catch up! louis@rossmanngroup.com
Speed Queen
@@rossmanngroup I'm doing great, Louis. Thank you for asking. I hope Austin is treating you well. I've emailed you before but you're so darned busy to reply. I will email you again. Have I not come to you for advice about computers? You've been very helpful. So now, donate your LG to someone in need and go buy a Speed Queen TR5003WN !!! 🤣Stay awesome.
I did buy a Speed Queen back in February 😂 just the washer though. My 13+ year old dryer is still running like a champ.
@@tricitymorte1 Hip Hip Hooray !!! Good for you !!! Not falling for this connected BS crap. Stay awesome.
YES for the guide on the home assistant ! thanks for another great video and insights
Unbelievable that more and more companies are becoming proper scumbags by taking this data slurp route... As always, thanks Louis for the constant heads up 😉👍
This is one of the reasons I love my pihole. I can let the devices connect and then add their requests to the blacklist so they can never connect again
How hard would it be to have a router in line with your internet connection to block all this, or maybe even just flood these companies with fake data- maybe something FUTO could get behind?
yeah I feel like a pihole could do this kind of filtering
I was thinking the same, what if you could block all the telemetry and data collection. If those data are "multiplexed" with other communication data and cannot be blocked, then use the ID assigned by the manufacturer for data collection to sent extra random data and make those collected data useless for identification or ever better poison their AI training 😂
YES!! Louis. If you are going to take the time to create a tech video, I promise you that I will watch every minute of it.
I want a Rossman series on TVs that explicitly don't spy.
The only ones that don't aren't connected to the internet.
He should launch a privacy certification company
The mid 2010s 46 inch TV that I recently bought at the GoodWill for $50 doesnt spy on me. 👍
Definitely would like to see a home assistant guide. Loved the nature scenes at the end.
Big Yes to a HA guide.
Thanks for all your work.
The tech video home assistant idea is very much welcome. I am looking to close off my entire home ecosystem and close off everything from the TV, printer to anything with an electric pulse.
Also, nice fishies.
Hey Louis,
I was literally thinking before you said it would love if you did a full tutorial on home assist, how to find out which devices are compatible with it etc.
Would also be nice I you made a searchable spreadsheet or text based document with a product name, and then three simple categories, Repairability, Privacy, and ownership (not having to pay subscriptions and actually owning the product/not having to see an AD), and then a date that way we can see what was the last date that you updated your listing for that product and if the company has changed their policies since then or you have made a new vide on that product.
Whats hilarious is that there is absolutely no point in connecting it to the internet.
You’d imagine you can remotely start the washing machine from your phone, but nope.
All the internet does for the consumer’s benefit is notifying them that the clothes are done. Everything else benefits LG.
Why would I even want to remotely start the washing machine from my phone? I have to physically be at the washing machine to load the clothes and the soap, so I might as well start it at the washing machine while I'm there. And the washing machine has a delayed start feature built into the control panel if I don't want it to start right away.
@@mjc0961 "Smart" devices remove controls like that to "encourage" installing the spyware app. And then they claim that's both convenient and pretty.
I can literally hear when my washer or drier stop. Who the hell needs a notification for that.
The home assistant guide would be amazing! But honestly specifically the direct remoting into another device alone would be great to learn just in of itself!
Hell Yes for the Home Assistant Guide! As long there is a cat, and a chair .... having some withdrawal symptoms