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Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ares35@kbin.social 108 points 10 months ago (3 children)

In a follow-up post a day after his initial Tweet, Johnie noted “inaccuracy in the ASUS router tool,” with regard to Apple iMessage data use. Other LG smart washing machine users showed device data use from their router UIs. It turns out that these appliances more typically use less than 1MB per day.

the writer knew that the stats were bunk, yet wrote the article anyway. the site knew this, too, tacked-on the clickbait headline and published it. toms really has gone to shit the last few years--at least under the current ownership (last changed hands 2018).

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Speaking of which, it uses the same web interface as a lot of other news sites. Newsletter popup, autoplay video part-way down that then jumps to the top of the screen, etc. What Hifi is the same, and there are various other sites all with the same annoying engine. Two questions: (1) are all these sites owned by the same company and (2) is there a browser extension that can fix them?

[–] ares35@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

yes, it's the same ownership (scroll down to the bottom). they have dozens of sites. don't know of any specific addons to help with them, though. custom ublock origin rules, perhaps.

[–] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 4 points 10 months ago

A good adblocker can fix it. Like uBlock Origin on Firefox.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

and here we are 17 hours later with it as one of the top stories on this site.

We are soooooooo reddit 2.0.

[–] nulluser@programming.dev 14 points 10 months ago

And OP presumably read the article, knew there was no actual story, and posted it here anyway.