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If my ranting concerns you, can you just not ignore it and move on? I just can't understand the negativity...

More seriously, I see value in iRobot and others hearing loud noise about how stuff like this is not OK to many of us.

- "We" may know this, but I doubt there's a "we also sell your data" sticker on the box, and lots of other people don't.

- If people don't push back, manufacturers will hear that this is acceptable. I'd like this to not be acceptable.

- iRobot may have floated this in order to find out what people thought, but many other companies are much less scrupulous. They need to hear loud and clear that this is not acceptable.

- If loud outcries happen each time some company tries to normalize data grabs like this, they won't be normalized. That's a world I'd like to live in, so I'll keep being loud, thanks.



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