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ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

Man, idk. I installed WRT Merlin in hopes this doesn't make it there. OpenWRT is really hard to get onto routers. Even the ones that support it (which tend to be pretty dated) have a ton of hurdles or restrictions as manufacturers really don't want to lose the telemetry.

Asus makes great hardware unfortunately. Some of the fastest and most performant routers out there. Moreover, they don't rely on subscriptions to gate some of the features like pretty much every one else.

I tried TP Link and Netgear (if their "legendary" Nighthawk) and the Asus just blew them away on every level. Especially stability and reliability.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

Precisely

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

Yeah. When I bought my ASUS router I was looking into OpenWRT supported routers but they are really hard to come by (at least in NA) and quite dated. Router manufacturers really don't want to have their telemetry removed.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

I worry about that more than I should. But yeah, that is the central hub that everything goes thru. I actually don't even want it to ping Asus's update servers because I can't be sure what kind of data is being sent.

I moved to Merlin firmware and hoping that doesn't have any telemetry. Unfortunately OpenWRT doesn't support wifi 6/6E routers and even the rare ones it does support, aren't really the greatest.

I want the asus hardware, just not their shitty software.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

Probably. But still so shady to give the choice when it doesn't actually work. Feels worse this way TBH.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

All you need is one lawyer in this case to handle the class action lawsuit that would follow. There is power in numbers.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

That's brutal that they get away with that crap. I will never buy anything ASUS branded again. They are on my embargo list now, right under Sony, which I haven't purchased a single thing from them for about 18 years since they screwed me out of repairs on my phone. Only way IMO.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

Sometimes I take spellcheck for granite.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

It doesn’t seem like they give a shit. This is the company that strong armed NexusGaming with their repairs and have scammed a slew of people thru their warranty system.

If you search for “ASUS repair scam” they have a sorted history of this kind of douchery.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/creamy-avocado-ranch-mcwrap-crispy.html

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

I can echo the last part. I refuse to use the app so I use the both the website and mobile version. Both are almost unusable. Comments often fail to load, just showing the Reddit logo animation. It takes 8 reloads to sometimes load a reply to one of my comments. Half the time it never loads just stalls at 30% loading. The post options to attach images or media to a comment doesn’t work on mobile; tapping the buttons literally do nothing. It works on desktop.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

That was my initial reaction like wait Immortal is also a conspiracy nut lol

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

I know there is software that exists that can poison art so LLM can't use it. I am hoping we make something like that against AI bots and ads. What a brutal future we have coming man.

Can you imagine once we move to androids and other synthetic like machines? Or brain implants? Your bff that's telling you to eat more eggs because they read they were really good for might literally be saying that because of chicken farmers or some vested third party who makes bank on eggs. Just wild that we are going to be attacked from all sides by corporate greed.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Yeah I think this is spot on. Someone else mentioned that Reddit doesn't really want you spend lots of time (yet anyway, till they can roll out better their new Dynamic Product Ads) on a single post. It would rather you scroll upvote and move on so they can try to get as much of the feed to your eyeballs as possible.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/reddit-sneaky-ai-spam-bots-compete-to-sell-you-stuff/

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Really???? https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/8aafc95e-126b-492d-a355-1b0d643f042d.jpeg

We might need to take to this a lemmy vote lol