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==Incidents==

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===Account bans for Homebridge use===

On April 16, 2021, it was reported that Blink accounts using a third-party Homebridge integration were banned.<ref>https://www.theverge.com/22381356/blink-homebridge-crackdown-amazon-subscriptions</ref> The reasons stated by Blink were "due to unsupported scripts or apps running on your system" and "the only automation that is permitted for use with the Blink system is through Alexa and/or IFTTT". According to Colin Bendell, the developer of the plugin, he states that 10,000 users of the plugin "is probably small potatoes for Amazon", as there were over 1 million downloads of the Android app.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210728214821/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.immediasemi.android.blink</ref>

===Planned obsolencence===

For older cameras such as the Indoor, XT, and XT2, the local storage option for the Sync Module 2 cannot be utilized.<ref>https://support.blinkforhome.com/en_GB/using-your-sync-module/sync-module-2-local-storage-operation</ref> Although this can be changed with a software update, that has not occurred.

==Products==

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 ==Incidents==
-{{Placeholder box|If the company page is short enough and/or the incident is not deserving of it own page, add incidents below in sub-sections (including the points outlined in [[Consumer_Action_Taskforce:Sample/Incident/Help]]) and delete the list after this box.
+{{Placeholder box|If the company page is short enough and/or the incident is not deserving of its own page, add incidents below in sub-sections (including the points outlined in [[Consumer_Action_Taskforce:Sample/Incident/Help]]) and delete the list after this box.
 If the company has various incidents listed and/or this page is getting too long, do not add sub-sections, and instead complete the list after this box.}}
+===Account bans for Homebridge use===
+On April 16, 2021, it was reported that Blink accounts using a third-party Homebridge integration were banned.<ref>https://www.theverge.com/22381356/blink-homebridge-crackdown-amazon-subscriptions</ref> The reasons stated by Blink were "due to unsupported scripts or apps running on your system" and "the only automation that is permitted for use with the Blink system is through Alexa and/or IFTTT". According to Colin Bendell, the developer of the plugin, he states that 10,000 users of the plugin "is probably small potatoes for Amazon", as there were over 1 million downloads of the Android app.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210728214821/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.immediasemi.android.blink</ref>
+===Planned obsolencence===
+For older cameras such as the Indoor, XT, and XT2, the local storage option for the Sync Module 2 cannot be utilized.<ref>https://support.blinkforhome.com/en_GB/using-your-sync-module/sync-module-2-local-storage-operation</ref> Although this can be changed with a software update, that has not occurred.
 ==Products==