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Buy devices that do not come with "backdoors" like this then. Why would these not be autonomous?
by anc84 9y ago
Buy devices that do not come with "backdoors" like this then. Why would these not be autonomous?
- crummy 9y agoHow is preventing you from updating your software until you agree to a privacy policy a backdoor?
- anc84 9y ago"The customer can choose to acknowledge the policy, or can accept that over time their product may cease to function" (emphasize mine).
- crummy 9y agoYou read that and think they're going to tunnel into your network and break your speakers? To me this is clearly lawyer CYA language to ensure that when Spotify changes their API and Sonos only supports it in a future software update, you will have been warned.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoI read that and I think they're totally free to. And they might. Which would be more frustrating to a user - their Sonos turning into regular speakers, or arbitrarily and randomly not functioning as expected? Imagine the difference between your phone suddenly bricking itself, or random refusing to dial certain numbers.
- crummy 9y agoFree to in what sense?
- pavel_lishin 9y agoFree in the sense that they can stop supporting any streaming services on your Sonos device.
- ball_of_lint 9y agoFree to in that if they did so, you would have no recourse according to this document.
- cm2187 9y agoThat's a good point, there must be a way to block access from these devices to the Sonos mothership. I have seen zero software improvement in the few years I owned my Sonos set, so I can't say that I would miss much.