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Blink
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Founded	2009
Legal structure	Subsidiary
Industry	Home security
Official website	https://blinkforhome.com/

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Blink is a manufacturer of home security cameras owned by Amazon. The company was acquired as a subsidiary in 2017.^[1]

Consumer impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the company's conduct regarding (if applicable):

User Freedom
User Privacy
Business Model
Market Control

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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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Planned obsolencence

For older cameras such as the Indoor, XT, and XT2, the local storage option for the Sync Module 2 cannot be utilized.^[4] Although this can be changed with a software update, that has not occurred.

Products

Modules
- Sync Module (2016)^[5]
- Sync Module 2 (2020)^[5]
- Sync Module XR (2024)^[6]
Cameras
- Blink Indoor (2016)^[5]
- Blink XT (2017)^[5]
- Blink XT2 (2018)^[5]
- Blink Outdoor 3 (2020)^[6]
- Blink Indoor 3 (2020)^[5]
- Blink Mini (2020)^[5]
- Mini Pan-Tilt (2022)^[6]
- Blink Outdoor 4 (2023)^[6]
- Blink Mini 2 (2024)^[6]
Doorbell
- Video doorbell (2021)^[6]
Floodlights
- Wired Floodlight Camera (2023)^[6]
- Outdoor 3 Floodlight Camera (2020)^[6]
- Outdoor 4 Floodlight Camera (2023)^[6]

References

[1] ttps://www.androidcentral.com/amazon-buys-smart-doorbell-and-camera-maker-blink

[2] ttps://www.theverge.com/22381356/blink-homebridge-crackdown-amazon-subscriptions

[3] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20210728214821/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.immediasemi.android.blink

[4] ttps://support.blinkforhome.com/en_GB/using-your-sync-module/sync-module-2-local-storage-operation

[BDSSU-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 ^5.5 ^5.6 https://support.blinkforhome.com/en_GB/blink-device-software-security-updates

[BP-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 ^6.6 ^6.7 ^6.8 https://blinkforhome.com/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.
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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==