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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 23 points 10 months ago (11 children)

"Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner, which is causing significant economic harm to our Company."

Presumably, they don't charge customers extra for hOn, so surely the only people using it via HA are the same people that would otherwise have used their (presumably) shitty app that isn't meeting the customers' needs in the first place?

Not clear on how this causes them "significant" economic harm. Dick move.

[–] Windswept@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Loss of 3rd party data sales from the tracking embedded in their apps would be my guess.

[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah - in an ideal world, the dev would have the means (and legal standing) to challenge this, just to force the fuckers to admit it in court.

Not that it isn't written into their ToS somewhere - just would love them to admit exactly how that harms them so much, financially speaking. Shine a light on the whole thing.

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