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PSA: Your Headphones May Be Spying on You and Selling Your Data Without You Knowing
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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Every device you have that has an app is harvesting ypur data to varying extents.
Sony's trick is hiding some configuration options in its app so you have to install it to make changes.
It the app that is phoning home, not the actual device.
Most headphones work fine with just Bluetooth.
I've purchased a few devices in my day that will not work without an app and/or an account. I cry for 5 minutes about what a fucking dystopian future we live in and how I've lost almost all excitement for new tech and then send it back to where it came from.
This.
JBL pods manual even says that you need the app to enable the noise cancelling, but if you tap twice it enables it.