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>>linker+(OP)
I'm in the process of reverse engineering an appliance myself to allow it to be integrated with Home Assistant, one which requires an mobile app to operate remotely and is connected to the net all of the time, when it doesn't need to be.

I was gifted this particular appliance, but the solution is really to just not give companies like this your money. Unfortunately it's easier said than done, but looking for things with a local API or based on an open and configurable standard are a good start.

I'll add Haier and related companies to my ever growing blacklist because fuck them for this.

I vehemently support people doing what they want with the things they own so long as it's not "interfacing" with other people or their stuff; don't connect to or "abuse" their cloud systems, they can rightfully be upset about that, but removing their crappy smarts (and data collection) and replacing it with local-only is your own business and companies like this can get lost.

>>alias_+fh3
On a related note, we bought an LG wall oven, and, after the cabinets to fit it were built, inside the oven door, we found a “by using this oven you agree to binding arbitration and worse” sticker. Of course, it was too late to switch out the model, and the distributor wouldn’t have accepted the return if we’d tried.

At what point will the courts decide that post purchase contracts are unenforceable?

>>hedora+ot4
> At what point will the courts decide that post purchase contracts are unenforceable?

I believe EU has already done that. That'd be a hidden term, I believe.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...