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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    1 year ago

    I have an adblocker for my home connection. By far, Hue subdomains are the most common blocked ones.

    Philips Hue sends data to servers every few minutes.

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        1 year ago

        If you want it to block IoT and other device connections, you have to pass all network through it.

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      1 year ago

      Is it that chatty because it keeps trying because you block it and it retries a lot?

      It’d still be calling home without it, but maybe not as much as it seems?

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        1 year ago

        Not necessarily. Sometimes I turn off the adblocker for days and still have the requests when turning it back.