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This is a cost cutting measure to hire less people.

I don't have stats to back this up but most people, like high 90%, don't turn any of that off.

I agree with you that it sucks and is horrible. I wish there were more laws to protect us.

Everything I stated is just a quick summary of why these robot really don't do much for data collection and is more of a money saving matter to not hire more security personal.

Me explaining how they track you does not mean I agree with it.

Your emotional state does not change reality.

They are already data mining you without these robots.

They use facial recognition on cameras. They use OCR on your license plate and scan your toll pass. They use your phone location if you connect to their "free" wifi. They track your bluetooth devices that's constantly looking to connect. They track you foot traffic and see what stores, what aisle, what product you picked it up and how long you had it in your hands.

Google "Target loss prevention" stories of frequent shoplifters that had profiles on them for months and stop them when they can charge for grand larceny rather than petite larceny. There is a reason why Westfield malls are everywhere. It's easier for them to control their own data than to constantly buy or contract out data from other companies.

These bots are probably getting more data but they are more for security. A moving camera is more of criminal deterrent just because it is moving. These bots are so they don't have to pay for more security guards than anything else.

That's true.

I glossed over the worst parts.

So many good episodes. This episodes, "Fifteen Million Merits" stands out. It's really good.

My favorite is "Shut Up and Dance".

On my Galaxy S24+, I have this option:

Keep screen on while viewing Keep the screen on while you're looking at it, using the front camera to detect your face.

Creepy. I wonder if Samsung can do this if this option is on...

There was a Black Mirror episode where if you close your eyes, the ad stops playing and continues only when you open your eyes again.

This is next.

when I got my S24+, it had Facebook, Spotify, Netflix, LinkedIn, Office 365, and OneDrive. I was able to uninstall all of them except OneDrive. I disabled OneDrive.

One of the first major problems took place with Android 10, as it restricted navigation gestures to stock launchers.

Note in 2019 in the beta release of Android 10, Google took away swipe gesture navigation and forced third party launchers to use the older 3 button navigation.

Moon Readers cloud sync is amazing if you read from multiple devices. I think they recently added book syncing too.