In many cases this would thoroughly annoy certain authoritarian regimes that are normalised as totalitarian surveillance states. Their exports would be disrupted. What a pity.
TVs are used by multiple people too so how does that even track legally.
My partners will fly through menus agreeing to everything if I'm not there.
I'm using a universal remote that doesn't have a microphone and it complains about that too.
Sometimes during software updates, this pairing is broken, and it never tells me that the pairing has been removed, and never forces me to pair the remote.
My next TV will be a big monitor.
And computers. Sure it's a good idea to have a password, but that's not the same as a user ID registered with a company.
If you want to modify GP’s proposal to exclude things that also have a service, how long until DJI adds a service to their drone? (It might even be a negative duration; I don’t own one, but it would shock me if there wasn’t some kind of service associated already, perhaps to prevent flying a drone in unauthorized areas [or justified as such] or allow access to some online component of camera service.)
You should be able to use your phone and install software on it without signing up for the sellers services, I think there is no reason to not allow that except evil lockin.
See windows for what happens when you don't legally enforce that, its ridiculous windows forces you to sign up to their services.
And that of course is also why this only happens via regulation.