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   Ana Hevesi (anthrocypher@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 09:25:20 JST Ana Hevesi

   Okay, so there's an extraordinary community story unfolding right now in the Home Assistant ecosystem:

   Chamberlain, the maker of MyQ automated garage doors, stopped supporting third-party apps in order to force device owners to use Chamberlain’s app.

   Why?

   So they can serve in-app ads, of course.

   For real, they're forcing the customers ~who have already paid them money for hardware~ to ALSO use their app so they can keep monetizing their eyeballs.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 00:46:49 JST feld

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     @anthrocypher Chamberlain is not in the wrong here, though. The customers paid money for the garage door hardware, not for "internet connected services to be run by Chamberlain for eternity".
     
     Customers are now learning that Cloud Connected Things are not free, and if they don't want to pay the costs (subscriptions or ads) they need to self-host the connectivity.
     
     This is a good thing. Finally people are learning the true costs of these things.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 08:25:14 JST feld

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     • LisPi
     @lispi314 @anthrocypher keep dreaming, but not going to happen unless a violent revolution overthrows capitalism.
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 08:25:15 JST LisPi

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     • feld
     @feld @anthrocypher It is in the wrong, as is every company that sells devices without the full schematic diagrams and source-code required to fix them yourself and set them up to your liking yourself.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 09:10:45 JST feld

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     • LisPi
     @lispi314 @anthrocypher Different flavor of capitalism. Making billions off patents wasn't a main source of revenue yet lol
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 09:10:47 JST LisPi

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     • feld
     @feld @anthrocypher The worst part about this is that it actually *was* a thing under capitalism, less than a century ago.
     
     It got worse.