Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location?
At least they acknowledged it, responded to the feedback and fixed it.<p>Unfortunately I have a Sonos system which became effectively bricked unless I signed a new user agreement allowing the collection of data.  There are no physical controls on Sonos so the system becomes useless without accepting.<p>They used to sell dedicated controllers/remotes years ago but these were also bricked as part of an upgrade about a year or two ago.  Unhappy owners were offered a voucher (worth less than the value of a single controller - many users owned multiple in order to fully support multi-room - see <a href="https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/save-the-cr100-6800510" rel="nofollow">https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/s...</a>) for their next Sonos purchase rather than allow them to continue to use the hardware they had purchased and used happily for years.<p>All concerns, requests to be allowed to downgrade, etc. are met on the official forums with a passive-aggressive dismissal of users' concerns by staff backed up by a few cultist fanatics.<p>I've tried to avoid any further updates (and deny Sonos access to my listening habits) by having it run on a disconnected network but if anyone accidentally updates the app on the old ipad we use as a controller, your forced to update everything.  I just wish I had the same system which I originally bought which I use exclusively to play my ripped CDs from a NAS.