For over a decade Philips Hue offered lights that work without sharing your data to the cloud. This is changing soon and we need your help to make some noise to convince them to revert this decision.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

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[Update Oct 2: data sharing to become optional] Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud

To control your lights you soon need to create an account and share your data with the Hue cloud.

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@homeassistant These douchebags have built their site to refuse access to their support page in Safari and FireFox. They blame it on my cookie preferences, which is not true.
@alexr @homeassistant I wasn't asked for my preferences...
@alexr @homeassistant I used the "feedback" button at the right side of the page to give them my feedback...