Why would anyone want to manufacture in the US? Tariffs on components would rape your margins
Answer: somebody got paid.
And there’s a backdoor in all their products
That’s a given, but I think they are suggesting they added one for the us government.
Spyware, but it’s removable
Correct
My friend has an Amazon owned router. Is that better?
Take a wild guess
I stopped buying Asus routers because they fucking suck.
They are prolific when it comes to knowing about and ignoring major security flaws in all of their software. That and just the shittiest hardware. They made a name with netbooks, had a few good years and then pioneered enshittifcation. Fuck asus.
There’s a router ban?
In the land of the free
Asuswrt-Merlin has been nice to work with otherwise I’d not really go with Asus.
paywall
Use “Reading Mode” it works fine
