Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud

https://lemmy.world/post/5718256

Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud - Lemmy.world

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

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.
Being able to downgrade apps for reasons like this are why I probably won’t ever leave Android.
“Please update the app to continue using HUE features”

AaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaAaaaaAaaa

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

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

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4840974

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