alt Hacker Newspeople who like saving money decided to do this. For simple monitoring purposes. When you have thousands of fridges you want to know how their doing and you don't want to sent a person to inspect each one of them.
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dietr1ch • today at 5:29 PM
Monitoring requires one-way announcements, not bi-directional connections
You could connect to an on-premise server. As a bonus, the manufacturer cannot disable them and extort money in this case.