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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5717757

Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows them to store the data and share it with partners.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The app rating in Google is currently 4.5 stars. I did my part in leaving a review, and got a nice "As our features grow..." pasta reply.

Edit: I've also downgraded the app to version 4.38 and disabled auto updates (both for the app and the firmware), and asked my housemate to do the same. That should keep things working for now.

[–] Rentlar 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Being able to downgrade apps for reasons like this are why I probably won't ever leave Android.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Forced mandatory popup after app launches

“App is out of date. Please update HUE to continue to get access to the latest features!”

It’s coming

[–] Rentlar 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaAaaaaAaaa

That's really all I have to say to that message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Android is going to potentially get worse too in terms of sideloading

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4840974