What is your preferred fitness tracker/smartwatch?
What is your preferred fitness tracker/smartwatch?
Apple Watch vs Garmin vs Fitbit vs Suunto
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While there are a lot of comments saying Garmin, I haven't seen people mention the privacy aspect
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/wearables/
Garmin apps are much better for privacy. If I'm going to be wearing a biometric tracker 24/7, I don't want that data being sold to advertisers. That's more important to me than most other features
Not many people care about privacy anymore. I mention it to my family, friends, etc and how they should do certain things online to stay more 'private' (not anonymous) and they laugh it off saying they have nothing to hide / don't care about their stuff being online... Sucks.
I get that as well, or when people care about the issues but not enough to change up how they are used to doing things.
It is getting better though, I'm finding more friends are moving to the better options. It's even easier when the privacy respecting option is as good as the alternatives. I guess Garmin is a decent example since people were recommending the watches even without the privacy aspect.
Garmin is mainly based on quality, with the benefit of privacy. I know many family friends who hike, run, bike, etc and use garmin because it is reliable.
Hope this privacy stuff becomes more common, kind of hate having to modify software or installing custom OSs for my day-to-day stuff.
That said, didn't they get breached and lose all their customer data a few years back?