Just.....why?
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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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Escalator temporarily stairs
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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.
Yeah, my understanding is that companies generate this data and just sell it unprocessed to data harvesting companies who link it with other data they’ve been sold. Companies seeking targeted info can then request data with varying levels of depth.
Like a company may request a list of emails of users who are very good (or bad) about brushing their teeth everyday to target ads at
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I found a 350€ OralB toothbrush in a shop recently in France.
I couldn't believe the amount of bullshit you have to cram in to up a toothbrush to that level of price.
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Because people are dumb and buy these shitty products.
I want a smart watch, but none do what I want without an account so I don't own that ether.
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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.
But then how will you download the latest pulse patterns? You could be missing out on a more optimal brushing experience.
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I found a 350€ OralB toothbrush in a shop recently in France.
I couldn't believe the amount of bullshit you have to cram in to up a toothbrush to that level of price.
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My sister, a dentistry student, got one in a promo event. It glows when you walk by to remind you to brush. Drove me nuts.
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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.
Reminds me of my Dyson fan. When I put it away for the season the battery inside the remote leaked and the remote is dead now. So I download the Dyson remote control app. There’s only an on button on the fan itself, so in order to sync my phone to the fan i need the original remote to navigate the settings and go to “sync”
So my dead remote is required to activate any other remote
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I found a 350€ OralB toothbrush in a shop recently in France.
I couldn't believe the amount of bullshit you have to cram in to up a toothbrush to that level of price.
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I have two of these i bought for $30 each
I use a website that has auctions near me that sell Amazon abandoned packages. I find these often
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I have an io10. It is not worth it. The 3D Tracking does not work reliable for me.
The cleaning result seem to be good, but you can get that from a cheaper model too. io6 or something.
The new brush heads are expensive, but good imho.
Also the app only works for one person, sharing with different brushes does not work.
Battery is not replaceable.
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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.
Yeah I got mine on sale a few years ago and totally forgot it had that until it showed up on my home assistant when I got a ZigBee USB dongle for my pi
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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.
I think most of those toothbrushes use Bluetooth if you want to track your brush stats or something with like home assistant, mine came with that and I totally forgot until my home assistant pinged me one day to add the device, I got that toothbrush in like 2017 on some sale and I wanted an electric tooth brush
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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.
More like “Enshitify app”, amirite?
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The function is available for now.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I cannot imagine the value to the company from whatever usage data they get from their toothbrushing app is anything close to the value they get from selling brush heads. So it would be immensely foolish to lock down the toothbrush.
The app is a selling point, and they do it because others do. Without it, they’d lose the portion of the market that wants to track which parts of their mouth they’ve brushed properly to their competitors. But that isn’t their main market, and they’d be idiots to kill their product chasing that niche.
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More like “Enshitify app”, amirite?
Deshittify, technically.
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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.
You jest, but smart toilets actually are a thing now... Though from what I can tell, they use remotes instead of apps. So no wifi or subscriptions, but you better not break that remote.
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