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I was given a "Nest Hub" by a family member, I'm very privacy conscious. What can I do with this thing? (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Feel really guilty, my one family member gave me this. I don't use much google stuff anymore and I really dislike the company as it gets more intrusive. Is there anything I can do with this thing besides give it away? Nothing is worse than getting a gift that you can't use.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

There is a stereo microphone and a camera in that thing. What good would Tor do in that case? That data would still make its way to google, unless you can root the whole thing and put a custom OS on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not running TOR on the nest. That would be dumb. I'm mentioning this is coming from a whole other end of technology. I like privacy. Google is not very private.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

oh ok i thought you were considering tunneling that things traffic through tor somehow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No, because the data would still need to find a way to google services

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They have microphones. They don't have cameras.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Oh i thought it did the motion recognition with a camera, but it actually uses a type of radar.

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/10388741?hl=en

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I don't know if that's better or worse