Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

5 days ago by inari to c/enshittification

The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.

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Stolas 1 point 4 days ago

So did they allow it to connect to their wifi or did it somehow force itself onto their wifi?

Just curious, because it seems simple to simply not give them access and I'm wondering if I'm missing something.

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axx 4 points 4 days ago

I don't know, but guessing they connected it to wifi because the thing asked / said it was part of the set up process.

Most people don't know about the garbage fire nature of connected devices.

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