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How I Hacked My Air Purifier to Remove Cloud Dependency [Detailed Write-Up]::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

A lot of devices are doing away with physical remotes in favour of a shitty cell phone app. It's cheaper, and they get the added benefit of selling the user data to have the necessary infrastructure pay for itself.