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submitted 1 year ago by narwhal@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Their latest round of stupidity pops up a new EULA and forces you to take it or, again, you can't access your stuff. But that's just more unenforceable garbage, so who cares, right? Well, it's getting worse.

It seems they are planning on dropping an update which will force you to log in. Yep, no longer will your stuff Just Work across the local network. Now it will have yet another garbage "cloud" "integration" involved, and they certainly will find a way to make things suck even worse for you.

If you ever saw the South Park episode where they try to get the cable company to do something on their behalf and the cable company people just touch themselves inappropriately upon hearing the lamentations of their customers, well, I suspect that's what's going on here. The management of these places are fundamentally sadists, and they are going to auger all of these things into the ground to make their short-term money before flying the coop for the next big thing they can destroy.

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[-] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 149 points 1 year ago

So let me get this straight. You buy Phillips Hue devices because they work offline. Then they change how the devices you bought function making them only work online forcing you to create an account and allow them to collect data.

This should not be legal. This is a breach of contract, they modified the contract after you already signed it (by buying the device). If they want to do this, they should offer full refunds to anyone that wants to exit the contract, or only apply the changed to new devices.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Phillips: " I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago
[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I found the youngling, y'all!

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