It's because most people don't consider it to be "trading freedom." If the thing breaks you replace it.
But people actually do want the kinds of features enabled by IoT devices on top of cloud infrastructure and they're reasonably priced. It's not idiocy, it's utility.
And you're free not to buy into it. It's no skin off your back.
I consider it idiocy because you can have the same utility without putting control of your home into someone else's hands.
> And you're free not to buy into it. It's no skin off your back.
Of course. It's absolutely no skin off my back. I'm just expressing that I don't understand why people choose to do this. It's also true that I don't need to understand! But I am curious.
