I can't remember exactly which smart device it was, but I think it was my Wyze Watch that asked for wayyyyyy too much information during setup.

Like, dear watch, how's my sex, birthday, size and weight gonna help you do your job?

I got you to 1) show the time 2) have alarms that I can set without using the phone, like in bed 3) monitor my sleep 4) check my heartrate and saturation when I exercise.

There's literally 0 reason to have my birthday, so I went by january 1st :)

But it shouldn't even have been asked in the 1st place.

> what we've allowed to become commonplace

We should not allow it anymore. A smart device that insist on having an app on a phone to be usable won't get my $$$.