Why is Sonos so busy phoning home?
by Volker Weber
Running a filtering DNS server like Pi-hole gives you interesting insights. One of them is how often Sonos "phones home" with your usage information. And that is if you have data collection turned off:
I perfectly understand how ad servers are tracking people on the net. How does that work for Sonos? Are we the customer or the product?
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You pick out the Sonos one but your top 10’s majority of entries are product telemetry:)
Building software that runs predominantly on some client, if you actually want the product to become better, the demand for client telemetry is ever increasing.
But yeah, a turn-off-telemetry button seems to be the software analog to the close-door elevator button.
Any idea what it sends?
Client telemetry I hear.
Fun fact: I noticed those dns requests to msmetrics.ws.sonos.com myself, remembered this article but guess what: I had already disabled the sharing of usage data...
