Is your air fryer spying on you?

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/11/air-fryers-are-the-latest-surveillance-threat-you-didnt-consider

Consumer group Which? has warned shoppers to be selective when it comes to buying smart air fryers from Xiaomi, Cosori, and Aigostar.

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…the air fryers’ associated phone apps wanted to know customers’ precise locations, as well as permission to record audio on the user’s phone.

The researchers also found evidence that the Aigostar and Xiaomi fryers both sent people’s personal data to servers in China. This was specified in the privacy notice, but we know not everyone reads a privacy notice.

We prefer plain old “dumb” cookware…

 

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Right. We have cast iron and a healthy ferritic steel 3 qt pot, from a good company. Designed to last a lifetime and it’s safe, too dumb to know how to communicate beyond our kitchen walls. Unless the aroma of a good stew drifts out the window to the neighbor’s house.

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Myst wrote:

Unless the aroma of a good stew drifts out the window to the neighbor’s house.

LOL, my mouth is watering!  🙂

 

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Our air fryer does not have IoT tech.
Why? I mean come on, OTT tech in a kitchen appliances ROTFL
However, my head and stomache vote the Air Fryer ‘the best’ invention of this decade, so far..
Our circo fan oven is only used for home-made pizza’s and storing the ovenware.

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We have cast iron and a healthy ferritic steel 3 qt pot, from a good company. Designed to last a lifetime and it’s safe, too dumb to know how to communicate beyond our kitchen walls.

I had one of those but it quarreled with the kettle.

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Microfix wrote:

However, my head and stomache vote the Air Fryer ‘the best’ invention of this decade, so far.

I’m going to have to disagree. Since I bought an Instant Pot in an Amazon Black Friday sale in 2020 (I now have two Instant Pots), my air fryer is almost never used. I’ve just mostly lost my taste for regular fried food.

Maybe I made a mistake buying a halogen air fryer, but I’m put off by how fiddly it is to keep clean, even though I rarely ever use any oil in it.

My Instant Pots, by comparison, are much easier to keep clean, and healthier… especially for great stews this time of year… and no sending data back to anyone.

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