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> is your company free of control by shareholders A company is by definition controlled by its shareholders.
> A company is by definition... company: noun kʌm.pə.ni an organization that sells goods or services in order to make money: - OED
"unauthorized users". They are authorized if they are trying to control their own garage door. The company I work for has a policy where we don't block third party clients, as long as they use a uniquely identifiable user agent and API key that we provide to them. That way we can easily monitor if they're calling endpoints excessively and make sure that our alarms don't go off when they did something wrong, but still…
Bought a Tailwind - it's glorious. No batteries, tons of integrations, the bluetooth+android to open/close automatically is crazy solid (doesn't work with ios sadly, but you can buy a fob).
They never technically allowed it in the first place. Homebridge and Home Assistant used a popular Python library that reverse-engineered the MyQ API from the Android app. Many companies couldn't care less until abuse ramps up, but given that Chamberlain (Blackstone-owned) has gone into rent-seeking mode all of a sudden, they decided to turn the Cloudflare Super Bot Fight stuff way the hell up on their OIDC token exc…
>They never technically allowed it in the first place. You own the device, they can fuck off with "allowed".
"unauthorized users". They are authorized if they are trying to control their own garage door. The company I work for has a policy where we don't block third party clients, as long as they use a uniquely identifiable user agent and API key that we provide to them. That way we can easily monitor if they're calling endpoints excessively and make sure that our alarms don't go off when they did something wrong, but still…
I'm not here to defend Chamberlain, mostly because I'm a pissed off user, but you are able to control your door still with RF products and buttons. Use of their API is separate, and they are able to authorize or not users to their API, which then also talks to your garage door. A lame nuance. We never own the API, we (sorta) own the product.
This isn’t relevant since that’s not why I bought a Chamberlain product. I bought it specifically for the capability that they arbitrarily killed.
"unauthorized users". They are authorized if they are trying to control their own garage door. The company I work for has a policy where we don't block third party clients, as long as they use a uniquely identifiable user agent and API key that we provide to them. That way we can easily monitor if they're calling endpoints excessively and make sure that our alarms don't go off when they did something wrong, but still…
I'm not here to defend Chamberlain, mostly because I'm a pissed off user, but you are able to control your door still with RF products and buttons. Use of their API is separate, and they are able to authorize or not users to their API, which then also talks to your garage door. A lame nuance. We never own the API, we (sorta) own the product.
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> The company I work for has a policy.. [lists some sound policies] Just a blind guess but is your company free of control by shareholders, venture capitalists and private equity?
> is your company free of control by shareholders A company is by definition controlled by its shareholders.
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I'm not here to defend Chamberlain, mostly because I'm a pissed off user, but you are able to control your door still with RF products and buttons. Use of their API is separate, and they are able to authorize or not users to their API, which then also talks to your garage door. A lame nuance. We never own the API, we (sorta) own the product.
> … you are able to control your door still with RF products and buttons. This isn’t relevant since that’s not why I bought a Chamberlain product. I bought it specifically for the capability that they arbitrarily killed.
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> … you are able to control your door still with RF products and buttons. This isn’t relevant since that’s not why I bought a Chamberlain product. I bought it specifically for the capability that they arbitrarily killed.
You should probably read that EULA that none of us read. We don't own their service. Never have. Downvotes don't make it less true.
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Slightly less irritating than garage door, but: I’ve been going to my baseball team’s website recently to buy stuff because they won, and a 5 second video ad pops up every time you go… I’m here, I want to spend money, and you want to show me ads?
The correct question is why you are on HN and yet don't use an ad blocker.
However, if you run pop-over-everything ads, auto-play videos with audio, resizing ads, run CPU heavy BS, attempt redirects, or other garbage ads, I simply stop visiting your site.
Don't abuse your ads. Don't use an ad provider that supports malicious behaviours. Too many sites abuse their users, I agree, but you're encouraging them by still giving them traffic.