I don’t know if it has a subscription per se, but holy crap/crab
It’s shit like this that is why we need consumer privacy right to own your own data laws.
It’s bad enough that the governments spy on you.
It’s absolutely abhorrent that individual companies owned by investors (who have an explicit drive to earn more money this quarter than they did last quarter) can spy on you to attempt to target and manipulate your buying preferences to spend more money on them.
This age of being spied upon is either going to become such a norm that it will be weird that people had issues with it in the future, or they’re finally going to fuck up some irrevocable way and make everybody wake up and realize that we don’t need every single motherfucker and who has a dollar in the game looking up our booty holes to determine what the fuck we just ate.
This age of being spied upon is either going to become such a norm that it will be weird that people had issues with it in the future
It’s like this now though. I’m apparently a total freak (outside of lemmy) for giving a shit about my privacy. I swear that everyone I know thinks I’m a conspiracy theorist. When I mentioned that Alexa listens to you when you’re not talking directly to it, I actually had someone laugh like it’s a totally absurd idea even though a two second search will bring up a million articles on it. Not to mention the lawsuits for when it spied on children.
People either don’t seem to care at all, or it’s just easier and more convenient to stick their heads in the sand. Which I guess is pretty typical for Americans at least. I will just never understand how anyone is ok with any of this.
If they did that to my Nordictrack treadmill I would be raining fury down upon that company. Working out should not require logging in every day.
I love my NordicTrack. It’s an old model, I push buttons and it goes. I have no idea why treadmills would ever need to be online. It doesn’t even need a screen. Mine just has a shelf for your tablet to go on.
I have the 2450 with a 22” screen. While I can use it without the internet, I really enjoy running along with a trainer and virtually going to the most amazing places on the planet. I honestly won’t use it if I can’t have that feature.
Ok I can see how some people want that feature.
Me, I just put a movie on and run while watching it. I have never had a trainer - virtual or otherwise.
