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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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I'm not really big on "let's make a movement", but this independent dev has been hit with a cease-and-desist from making a FOSS Home Assistant addon for their Haier air conditioners.

Haier claims that they are losing out on millions of dollars due to this plugin which... lets you control their air conditions from home assistant. They haven't bothered to explain how that's possibly worth millions of dollars - they're just claiming it.

So of course they hit the Streisand button and are demanding that he takes it down. He of course is complying... in a couple of days. Maybe you see where this is going.

It would be an absolute shame if any of you just happened to create a fork, or clone the code, or mirror it in your own instance. An absolute shame.

Just so everyone here knows which repositories NOT to clone or fork, here are the two links:

and please, don't repost this anywhere, or share it in other communities, or anything like that. It's a shame that so many people already know and are making clones. I'm just letting you know so you don't do anything like telling others who may make their own copies.

(sidenote: Haier owns GE Appliance, so for our American folks it may affect you folks too)

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[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol I love it. You'd think by now people/companies would be aware of this....

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thing is, what most people aren't aware of is the amount of times the Streisand effect doesn't happen.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. This is going to be noticed in Tech blogs and news sites, but it wont make it to the mainstream news. Even if some mainstream newspaper might notice it and want to write a small article about it, they most likely will repeat the corporate response about some evil hacker messing with their product.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I was thinking more about the occassions where there is no news article whatsoever, but you make a good point also.