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Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 7 months ago by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] servobobo@feddit.nl 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Botnet node? 3GB sounds excessive even for a company that's notoriously invasive.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 7 months ago

As someone else already posted, the 3GB was incorrect, it was a router reporting incorrect traffic.

But that doesn't seem to stop everyone here from continuing to post how the thing that didn't happen in the first place is ridiculous...

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 7 months ago

I'm sure this got posted before and the most likely reason was that it was downloading some sort of update and failing to apply it repeatedly.