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You can have local control over such things, and IOT devices should be locked down to only ever access via LAN anyways.
That still needs wifi access though. Internet access is a different story, I can't think of almost anything that needs internet access. Maybe security camera.
Is it easy to isolate a device to LAN only via router? I never figured out how to do it.
That's the one you want to keep off the Internet the MOST!
The easiest thing is to have the InternetOfTrash devices with no configured route; just broadcast and that's it.
I know people who like being able to see their camera remotely. For example ,if someone is trespassing on their farmland, or business. I don't use this feature personally, but I can see why people might want it