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>>pictur+(OP)
I want to see meaningful pushback on this indefensible move of forcing customers to establish and maintain a relationship with the manufacturer in order to use the products they sell.

Other examples are: Wahoo, who locked the control of their products behind an account and login requirement for devices which had been working perfectly fine for years prior.

Roche, who killed their blood glucose app at the start of 2023 and forced all their users to move to a third party app, developed by one of their subsidiaries, which requires you to accept a data exfiltration clause, if they wish to continue the automagic on-device logging.

>>1ncorr+P4
Don't use their products then? Nobody is forcing you to.

>>Daz1+C8
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. If Reddit is any indication, the moral of the story is they can get away with it because there's a million idiots all ready to take your place.

>>pockyb+69
I think the difference here is that Reddit wasn't bought at a retail location and you couldn't just return it to the store and get your money back.

People can and SHOULD return this garbage to the retail store the minute they get home and realized it's encumbered in this way.