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I gave them a crap review in the Android app store because of it – I have absolutely no need for my lights to be able to be controlled over the internet outside of my house, and I don’t want the feature nor do I want my hue bulbs connected via any stupid cloud link so they COULD be managed over the internet outside of my house. Their response was “as we add new features, so too do we add new security features to protect the platform and that justifies us requiring you to have a login and make your devices controllable via the cloud”. Uh huh.

I’ve set the Android app to never automatically update in the future and I’m really hopeful that I can avoid this garbage requirement by doing so, but I’m sure they’ve thought of it and I’m going to end up having to move to 3rd party apps to control them eventually.

In a world where Steve Huffman has called reddit’s data “his data to sell”, it has become abundantly clear that he has absolutely no respect for the fact that it is his users and moderators that create the community – all that he and the admins do is create a system whereby the community can create and curate content. Without users, he has a big expensive and empty server.

It’s not “his data”, it’s the community’s data. The fact that he’s acting like he owns all of it pretty much sums up why I overwrote and deleted all of my content on reddit, and it is precisely why I will never provide free content for that website ever again.

Agreed – not only do I think OP misunderstood Louis’s point (if you have the means to help and the opportunity to help, you should help), their post also doesn’t make clear that the comments being cited and quoted in it weren’t actually said by Louis during the video (or said by him on the channel), but were comments made on the YouTube video by people completely unrelated to him.

It seems easy to read the post and mis-attribute the quotes to Louis based on how it is written, but he didn’t actually say any of those things.

I used redact to do this and my edits were reverted and my comments un-deleted. Presuming that this was because I used a tool and it was easily identifiable as being done via API, I went back in and manually edited about 30% of my comments last night and noticed that they were all reverted again today. I’ve now manually gone in and edited all of my comments this morning and deleted them as of about 2 hours ago and they have not returned yet.