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Some Google Home Speakers downloading massive amounts of data in the background

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Some Google Home Speakers downloading massive amounts of data in the background

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

The new Google Home Speaker has an issue where it downloads hundreds of gigabytes of data in the background for some owners.

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4 days ago
To be fair, IoT devices should be making exactly zero DNS requests, unless maybe you set up a proper domain name for your Home Assistant server.

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