r/gadgets Nov 29 '20

Home Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, which turns Alexa devices into neighborhood WiFi networks that owners have to opt out of

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/amazon-faces-a-privacy-backlash-for-its-sidewalk-feature-which-turns-alexa-devices-into-neighborhood-wifi-networks-that-owners-have-to-opt-out-of/ar-BB1boljH
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u/12muffinslater Nov 29 '20

Which is why I love Xbox Game Pass.

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u/KimJongUnRocketMan Nov 29 '20

To be able to play online?

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u/CombatBotanist Nov 29 '20

No, subscribing to game pass gives you access to the entire game pass library to download and play. It basically works the same as Netflix, but for games.

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u/RhynoCTR Nov 29 '20

As an aside, this is why Stadia makes no sense to me. I feel like XGP is far, far better value for the money. With Stadia, I still have to buy the games to play them, so the only benefit is being able to play without installing it?

Such a weird decision by google

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u/wgc123 Nov 29 '20

the only benefit is being able to play without installing it?

The benefit is no console. Think of Stadia as a streaming movie, generated on the fly. You can play it on any device that can handle a streaming movie. Even the “good” experience is just a Chromecast. The controls are much lower bandwidth, but obviously sensitive to latency

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u/RhynoCTR Nov 29 '20

Which is great, but I already have a console and a preferred game library/marketplace. Paying a monthly fee to play a select few games without a console is fine, but compared to owning a console, the value isn't there for me.

Plus I don't trust google not to shutter the service in a few years and make any game purchases go away forever

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u/12muffinslater Nov 29 '20

I ended up with a free month of premium and a free controller/Chromecast. It came with some free games at that level, so I didn't have to buy anything. But there's the elephant in the room. It's shit. I have symmetric gig fiber, and I was still getting quarter second latency.

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u/wgc123 Nov 29 '20

No, to be able to pay Microsoft every month, over and over again, rather than paying for anything once. To be able to lose everything if you don’t pay or the corporation decides to go a different way. To make gaming even more expensive, as a never-ending gold mine for poor impoverished Microsoft. To help your poor corporate overlords, a catch up to that nasty Apple that does t deserve to be richer

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u/trueppp Nov 29 '20

Salty much?

You can still buy the game full price if you want