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i’ve found one that’s called “italian design pumba” and its “intelligent obstacle evasion” is just bumper sensors. there don’t appear to be any cameras, infrared, lidar, phone apps, etc., which is exactly what i’m looking for!

you might have some luck looking for older brands/models along those lines from second-hand shops and refurbished resellers. they’re way cheaper too, as a nice bonus

If I file once, am I done forever?

Unfortunately, no. While the opt-out of sale request should last indefinitely, California’s privacy law still allows companies to collect information without asking for permission first in most cases. That means data brokers are likely to continue to collect information for profiles of you—but they will will have less data and be limited in how they use it after an opt-out request. New data brokers may also register with the state after you file your request. And DROP won’t stop companies who aren’t registered data brokers, like Google, from collecting and sharing your personal information.

here’s hoping that it’s a “foot in the door” sort of starting point that will be expanded to this data not being collected en masse in the first place 🤞

i have a separate phone and email just for applying for jobs, and that’s p much the only way i know how to deal with the spam, since it’s at least diverted away from my real contact details.

but unfortch, i can’t exactly give out my CV with my name and employers redacted, as much as i’d like to, hah!

good! hopefully this will discourage everyone who bought them from using them, so they just sit in a drawer somewhere or get recycled instead of spying on unwitting people, and meta will fail to make back the huge amounts of money they’ve invested in tech that most people don’t want 😌

i can use the searchbar on jellyfin & if it’s not already there, i can request it using jellyseer within that same search bar, so it’s possible to integrate the two somehow.

i’m afraid i’m not sure of the specifics though, i’m only using a friend’s jellyfin 🫣

this is a new account spamming multiple communities with ragebait & antisemitism, they’ll probably delete their account soon if they don’t get attention fast enough 🙄

for myself, if i can recover passwords etc, i delete the account to lower the possibility of that data being used to train ai, and to lower the numbers of registered accounts they have.

i think stakeholders are more likely to see accounts being deleted as worse than an inactive account, because people can always come back to an inactive account.

so many websites are eager to keep users by making it difficult to delete accounts, or by adding a 14 day wait before they’ll delete an account, etc., so that alone makes me think they want even inactive accounts for usage statistics or to steal data from.