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Well, aren't you quaint. Next thing you'll be asking for is seed corn that you can replant year after year from the corn it grows, heated seats in your cars without a subscription payment, replaceable batteries in your battery powered electronics.
Don't forget a subscription free garage opener/motor camera.
I think I got the last one of those, but mine did come with a "free" phone app to open/close the door. The app turned into an advertising platform about 3 years after I put the opener in - no options out, gotta see the ads if I want to use my opener via app.
That's bonkers.
Pihole?
Have one, suppose I could try tweaking filters around whatever it gets its ads from, but the code to present the button to open the door doesn't show up until after the ads do, so I suspect all my pihole will be able to do is break the app.
What an evil piece of shit
In the world of "fair" - it still has the old battery powered remote buttons to keep in the cars, and the button on the wall, just like openers always have had, but I'm not in my cars or near the button about 2/3 of the time I want to open or close that door - so I just get pissed off specifically at that company every time I use their app. Whatever they get from those ads really can't be worth that loss of customer good will, can it?