Just.....why?
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It was sarcasm. They were making fun of the comments.
Oh, alright, I guess...
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Right? I buy only open-source wifi toothbrushes. Still waiting on the year of the Linux toothbrush, tbh
My esp32 vibrator-toothbrush is up on GitHub. Might take it down later, idk.
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I mean, it looks more like you got logged out of your app.
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Ah yes, there's a whole line forming to buy data about teeth brushing, it's like a gold mine.
You joke, but I guarantee there's a market. Consider health insurance companies that see an opportunity to charge everyone more unless they can prove their good brushing habits via app data.
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My esp32 vibrator-toothbrush is up on GitHub. Might take it down later, idk.
There's no one maintaining the repo. St this point, the brush is gonna be archived
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If you meet a man who has been logged out of his toothbrush, do not mourn him. He has chosen thus. He is exactly where he has desired to be.
Mourn for this man, not for his choices but for his lack of them; a store selling expired milk should be put out of business by the authorities, not by a mob of post-poisoned shoppers.
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Imagine explaining the concept of this to a 16th century peasant, let alone some rich person from the 2000s, like nobody would've ever been ready to comprehend the existence of a wi-fi enabled toothbrush.
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It's the experience of a toothbrush collecting data about your daily routines to sell for profit.
Who is interested in that data other than Oral-B and their competitors though? Oral-B isn't collecting that data to sell to itself, and they certainly wouldn't want their competition using it
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If it’s anything like mine, it works just fine without the app. The app just does brush tracking and shit. I don’t need any of that, so I never set it up. But I suspect even if I had, it would still let me use it without being logged into the app.
I suspect the same is true here. That the function of the toothbrush is available regardless of whether it’s logging data to your phone.
The function is available for now.
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I am what you would call a technology enthusiast, or what some people have dubbed as a gadget whore. I love little electronic devices that make my life easier. However, at no time in my life, will I ever need or desire a toothbrush that needs WiFi access or a subscription to some service. It really isn’t necessary or even useful. It’s like the old comic about the toilet that needs a phone app.
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You joke, but I guarantee there's a market. Consider health insurance companies that see an opportunity to charge everyone more unless they can prove their good brushing habits via app data.
I think it's a conspiracy theory. The vast majority of people use manual brushes. Of those who use electric ones, a majority use dumb ones. Of those who use smart ones, some people don't use the app. Or don't bother opening the app every time they brush. Those who register probably don't provide insurance info. The data they collect is basically useless for individual cases, and definitely useless on a bigger scale.
My take is that it's a gimmick to help sell you more expensive brushes when you are browsing and comparing them.
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I think it's a conspiracy theory. The vast majority of people use manual brushes. Of those who use electric ones, a majority use dumb ones. Of those who use smart ones, some people don't use the app. Or don't bother opening the app every time they brush. Those who register probably don't provide insurance info. The data they collect is basically useless for individual cases, and definitely useless on a bigger scale.
My take is that it's a gimmick to help sell you more expensive brushes when you are browsing and comparing them.
It's not about user-led synergy. The personal data market is slurped up by those that already have and are building correlations. Just because a user didn't report anything to their insurer doesn't mean an insurer sure as shit isn't going to want the data if they can link it to the user whatsoever, so long as it will make them more money.
This is hypothetical, of course, but it's the way the market of data brokers works.
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Right? I buy only open-source wifi toothbrushes. Still waiting on the year of the Linux toothbrush, tbh
If you can't run Doom on it, is it really your toothbrush?
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I mean, it looks more like you got logged out of your app.
For now.
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Who is interested in that data other than Oral-B and their competitors though? Oral-B isn't collecting that data to sell to itself, and they certainly wouldn't want their competition using it
You see, they'll sell this information to your health insurance company, so that your premium will increase if they think you brush too seldom or not thoroughly enough.
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If you meet a man who has been logged out of his toothbrush, do not mourn him. He has chosen thus. He is exactly where he has desired to be.
But any man's toothbrush logout diminishes me
Because I am involved in brushing my teeth
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Just kidding, I use home assistant and my oral-b toothbrush broadcasts using BLE, which Is capture using the oral-b integration. You don’t need to be logged in.
Oh god I hope this is sarcasm. I'm good with my old, dumb oral-b that does nothing but brush my fucking teeth.
The oral-b integration has been installed by 13,611 users.
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Who is interested in that data other than Oral-B and their competitors though? Oral-B isn't collecting that data to sell to itself, and they certainly wouldn't want their competition using it
The amount of information that can be inferred, especially when coupled with more data from other "brokers", is crazy. You might be flagged as a depressed person if you skip brushing some/most days. The time you wake up and go to work might be an indication of your social status, together with how often you replace the head.
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You see, they'll sell this information to your health insurance company, so that your premium will increase if they think you brush too seldom or not thoroughly enough.
Exactly this, but it will be sold the other way around, you'll get a gift or a discount if you log+link data
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