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Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] roofuskit@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My car works fine without a seat warmer, but if you sold it to me as part of the car then later it started charging me a subscription I'd be pretty pissed.

[โ€“] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I barely use the app, but this is a bullshit anti-consumer move that leaves me with zero reason to trust the company going forward.