It is so difficult tofind modern electronics without telemetry and ads. Smartphones, laptops, TVs, home routers, security cameras, cars, game consoles, e-readers, projectors, 3D printers, fitness trackers, speakers, and even some printers. Why can’t customers be free from this data collection and advertising? It’s not that we don’t care about it. There simply aren’t many alternatives, and the few that do exist are either more expensive or offer fewer features. Seriously, we need a list of products we can buy without worrying about telemetry or advertising.
The following list is updated at https://lemmy.ml/post/52706206. Please note that this list may contain errors.
- 3D printers: Prusa 3D Printer
- Anything else that doesn’t come with ads or telemetry built in?
Could anyone help verify whether Prusa 3D Printer has any telemetry at all? And, hopefully, that Prusa isn’t planning to change its customer policies in the future to make telemetry collection or ads compulsory?
I have everything turned off, but my Prusa still updates its clock and tells me if it needs a firmware update.
I don’t think pihole is going to be able to tell the difference between that or reporting back filenames to Prusa.
I doubt they’re doing anything super sketchy, I just don’t think there’s a great way to verify for sure.
There is though, more than any other 3d printing company, you actually can be absolutely certain of what it’s doing
Nice 404 on that link.
I have the very first model they sold, for which they did actively maintain a marlin fork. But that miniRAMBO board was completely offline.
I haven’t seen that kind of GitHub activity for recent models.
? I double checked; the link works for me…
Maybe the client you’re using doesn’t like the parentheses.
https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware
And whether activity is new or not is irrelevant to the concern of not knowing what the device is sound.
I think it’s more in your original hyperlink that the last parentheses was included in the hyperlink
Huh, weird