This is exactly how they worded warnings for my Nest Thermostat before one day killing the service and trying to upsell me a newer, more expensive model.
It’s time to say goodbye to Fitbit before Fitbit says goodbye to you.
Nest is so tragic. Great independent company who made a sleek, high-end, innovative product. Bought by the most evil company* and completely enshittified. I don’t want to create more e-waste, so I still have mine and capitulated to their account demands. I almost look forward to them killing what I have now so that I can support a competitor.
Nah Nest was made by an ex Apple engineer, retained Apple’s “philosophy” of locked down walled garden everything, and introduced the idea of cloud controlled home automation to the masses. Killed off the idea of smart thermostats and smart home devices in general having a local server that does everything in your own home. Fuck that shit.
Also, for something pretending to be eco friendly, the amount of disposable packaging it came in was disgusting. A fucking thermostat that had more packaging than an iPad.
I abandoned any attempt at interacting via the app and treat it as a normal thermostat.
I agree it’s a great product, although when Google took over I did start noticing some behaviors like heat suddenly getting cranked up high at weird hours of the morning.
Oh but the best part about Nest is that if you don’t upgrade it doesn’t go offline. It stays online sending data back to Google. So it’s not like they pulled the plug, they just pulled the plug on service because they wanted to and they’ll still sell your data for profit. Double whammy.
If you do a Takeout request of Nest data, you will find a hundreds of megs JSON file with every change you made to your thermostat, every time you walked by it, any data it could harvest. A breadcrumb trail of your entire home life. I switched back to old fashioned offline battery thermostats.
This is exactly how they worded warnings for my Nest Thermostat before one day killing the service and trying to upsell me a newer, more expensive model.
It’s time to say goodbye to Fitbit before Fitbit says goodbye to you.
Google kills every service it touches.
This tracker site also goes further back but around 2019 I suspect it was also . . . Killed by Google.
Nest is so tragic. Great independent company who made a sleek, high-end, innovative product. Bought by the most evil company* and completely enshittified. I don’t want to create more e-waste, so I still have mine and capitulated to their account demands. I almost look forward to them killing what I have now so that I can support a competitor.
*two-way tie with Meta for most evil
Bear in mind that as they age, you have increasingly unstable lithium bombs on your wall.
Nest smoke alarms were inspired and truly the best I have ever used. So pissed Google destroyed them.
Nah Nest was made by an ex Apple engineer, retained Apple’s “philosophy” of locked down walled garden everything, and introduced the idea of cloud controlled home automation to the masses. Killed off the idea of smart thermostats and smart home devices in general having a local server that does everything in your own home. Fuck that shit.
Also, for something pretending to be eco friendly, the amount of disposable packaging it came in was disgusting. A fucking thermostat that had more packaging than an iPad.
https://nolongerevil.com/
I abandoned any attempt at interacting via the app and treat it as a normal thermostat.
I agree it’s a great product, although when Google took over I did start noticing some behaviors like heat suddenly getting cranked up high at weird hours of the morning.
If it’s a gen 1 or 2 you can flash it
https://nolongerevil.com/
Thank you so much for this.
You’re welcome! :)
Oh but the best part about Nest is that if you don’t upgrade it doesn’t go offline. It stays online sending data back to Google. So it’s not like they pulled the plug, they just pulled the plug on service because they wanted to and they’ll still sell your data for profit. Double whammy.
If you do a Takeout request of Nest data, you will find a hundreds of megs JSON file with every change you made to your thermostat, every time you walked by it, any data it could harvest. A breadcrumb trail of your entire home life. I switched back to old fashioned offline battery thermostats.
Fuck.
Unless you flash it to not talk to Google anymore.
https://nolongerevil.com/