The yeelights are typically bought on eg Aliexpress. I have mine with the local network developer functionality enabled, here's to hoping they will still work with that at least.
That'd be an entertaining help desk conversation. "No the product is still functional, but my country made it too much of a hassle for them to operate in my region"
That's fairly incredible. A friend bought a Samsung smart TV, but after reading the EULA (which of course they spring on you after powering it on rather than to inform you at the point-of-sale) decided to forego the smarts in the TV. Those things track just about everything, your fridge apparently is still relatively mellow.
Beats the schadenfreude I'm having with some of the IoT lightbulbs no longer working for EU customers - a problem which actually impacted a friend of mine. See: https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/999619364541394944.
EDIT: 2 friends now. I wonder how many more bought those lightbulbs...