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

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/stallmanwasright@lemmy.ml/t/487981

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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  • nottheengineer@feddit.de
    6·
    9 months ago

    This will only get worse, enshittification goes faster and faster. Some companies (like epic with their store) are already skipping the first phase of providing value to users.

    The only thing you can do is to use FOSS and hardware with open standards because those are the only things that are safe from enshittification. As a bonus you’re also voting with your wallet.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Yes indeed. I’ve now shifted everything over to Zigbee control through Home Assistant (just packed away another hub before reading this) and all the recent news makes me pleased I did.

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          ZHA and everything went smoothly (my only problem was the dongle was so big it blocked the other USB ports). Packed away the IKEA hub last night.

          • Mex@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            the dongles tend to get better reception if you use an extenion lead anyway so might be worth considering that.

            • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              Ah well that’s good to know as I used one. Reception seems solid.

              My only real issue was when I changed the firmware to add in Thread Border Router functionality - it seriously degraded the performance (for no actual benefit), so I changed it straight back and haven’t had an issue since.