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The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience?
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I've always felt like the apps stuffed full of telemetry that have access to a lot of data on my phone are the most concerning part. It's annoying too that the devices themselves phone home.
GrapheneOS has a built in network "Kill Switch" for each app individually on your phone.
As soon as a app is installed it you are prompted to grant network access to the app, you can also choose to restrict it after the fact as well.
There are also some other apps on Android that do the same that I have come across, but I have gotten pretty used to what GrapheneOS offers me now built in.
This is useful for restricting network access for keyboard, galary, game, or emulator apps for example.
Downside is the apps need internet/network access to control the smart home devices.
I run pretty much all ESPHome or Tasmota devices since there's no app required, and it's all LAN based communication. But the complexity is certainly very high for those compared to off the shelf stuff.