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Create a Garden-Sized Bird Surveillance State With This Smart Bird Feeder

Ever wonder what your backyard birds are up to all the time? Like ALL THE TIME?

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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Free as a bird, so the saying goes. No rent to pay, no 9-5 job to work. Vacations to the tropics are free every winter, if you don’t mind a little flying. Oh, and the flying. No middle seats or surly, crying children as you jostle down a jetliner’s narrow aisle every hour just to avoid deep vein thrombosis. And all the nuts and seeds you can gorge yourself on. Those lucky birds don’t even have to deal with the creeping advance of a Big Brother-type of nanny state that plasters AI-infused security cameras over every public space.

Seems a little unfair, doesn’t it? Give those backyard birds a taste of what it’s like to be a human while you’re also giving them a taste of free seeds to lure them right up to the Netvue by Birdfy Smart Bird Feeder’s........

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