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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How do you have this set up? Is the blocker software on your PC or is it a raspberry pi?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Adguard Home or Pi Hole, in a device that, indeed, can be a Raspberry Pi.

[–] filcuk 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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