What’s up the phrasing on that headline
I would cancel my gym membership.
And then discover every other gym is doing the same thing.
So then I figure to hell with it, I’ll just exercise at home.
Only to discover my “smart” home gym equipment is also spying on me.
And then Cory Doctorow will step out from behind a curtain and say “I tried to warn you”.
It isn’t hard to exercise without fancy gym equipment. Every result you want from equipment can be done with body weight and minimal equipment you can make yourself.
Bodybuilding and powerlifting would like a word.
The second part of the comment is incorrect, as you noted, but exercising without equipment is cheap and effective at getting fitter. Getting big needs equipment but Getting fit can be done with calisthenics.