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Exercise Bike Company Yanks Features Away From Purchased Bikes Via Firmware Update
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this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
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Enshittification
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Yep and our buddy Louis Rossmann has put up a $5,000 bounty (if I remember correctly) for anyone who reverse engineers the firmware and allows people to use the product they already paid for.