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  1. fairygirl

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    Utterly thoughtless and stupid. For the sake of a bl**dy phone? The waste of resources.
     
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        What is an air fryer?
        Why would you want to fry air?
         
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          Why would an air fryer need to be internet enabled in the first place? :scratch: You have got to put the food in, so you can switch it on yourself. It's not like you need to operate it remotely.
           
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            The fancy ones can probably send a message to your phone when the cooking time is up. In case you're upstairs or out in the garden and don't hear the ping. It wouldn't work for me because I don't always carry my phone around the house/garden, but lots of folks do.
             
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              As they turn themselves off when the cooking time is done, I'm not sure that "advantage" would be worth giving away data to be sold on for purposes way beyond your control.
               
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                I wouldn't have an internet-enabled one, myself. But I suppose for those who might be inclined to get distracted, forget they put it on and leave the food to go cold, it might be useful. They seem to sell anyway, so someone's buying them.
                 
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                I wouldn't have any internet enabled kitchen gadget. If you do want them you can get internet connected kettles, fridges, freezers.....
                 
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                I suppose the next thing then is how long does your kettle/fridge or WHY spend tweeting on SM ? If you need to make yourself a cup of tea, does your kettle say " Hang on - I'm busy at the moment " ? The mond boggles :rolleyespink:
                 
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                  Visions of a smart fridge or freezer ejecting items it deems unhealthy. The frozen pizza fired across the room like a frisbee.
                   
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                    Or refusing to open when it thinks you’ve eaten enough for the day.
                     
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                      I can manage that with a non internet connected microwave; opened mine this morning to find a bowl of soup that I'd put to heat up when I got in from work yesterday afternoon.
                       
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                        Would a series of cooking settings, on time and finish time be worth anything to anybody?
                         
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                        Info about when you were in or on holiday might.

                        Am just reading a very interesting book, Your Face Belongs To Us by Kashmir Hill. What started off as start-ups scrapping faces from FB and other social media sites in order to train AI facial recognition tools has now become something much bigger and completely uncontrollable. Single pieces of data may be worthless. Billions of pieces are a different matter.

                        (P.S. If anyone here is thinking of a sideline as a porn star (:biggrin:), be aware it it possible to find all images of you ever posted and link these to your real name, email, home address, etc. Anonymity no longer exists.)
                         
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