that was sold for years on the agreement that they would not be able to harvest this data (simply because I could run them without connecting to the internet). Now I still have that option of course, but I will eventually trade product updates to do so

So you’re saying “I’m eventually going to value updates to these products more than my privacy and my data, despite me having the option of not doing that, keeping my data, and still having the same functionality in the lamps they had when I purchased them”?

I don’t know what your problem seems to be.

It’s cool that you don’t care about your autonomy and privacy

Autonomy. Yes. My autonomy is deprived from me because some random sweaty bro is crying online that companies are companies.

So you’re gonna trade your autonomy and privacy for some pathetic updates on your lamps? It seems like you don’t care about your privacy. Where do you live again? If not in the GDPR area your data is traded in thousands of places where mine isn’t.

I do care about mine, but I’m not such a moron that I think that caring about it makes any difference on a personal level. I care about it because of the societal implications it has, not because I’m a paranoid incel who’s afraid of some random company having checks notes info on how many lamps of theirs I have at home.

I have a wifi specifically for guests and shit devices that might need it. It doesn’t really matter who has access to it.

Again, what is it that I’m supposed to be so afraid of? No-one can blackmail me on anything, I have no digital assets (even money) to steal.

I’m politically on the correct side of this issue because I understand the consequences in the bigger picture. I don’t know if you even see a bigger picture, it just sounds like you have have paranoid delusions of being persecuted.

Have you thought about seeing a mental health care professional to get checked out?