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Google is trolling us now, I see 

Great info. I'll bet with some coordination, a motivated law firm could tie the firmware pushes and dates used to begin defeaturing this capability.

If I were an attorney I think I'd jump all over a class action on this. Thousands of hours, sure, but the payoff will be huge. There's been few more glaring, longer running, post-sale FU's to the customer than what Google has done with these devices ...

Everyone who reports how they've "fixed" this issue should be assigned a pass/fail assignment to report back on the status in a week. While I appreciate their intentions, these fixes never last except in maybe the absolute simplest network environmen...

Uh, 'fraid not, says dozens of posts in this thread and hundreds across Reddit and the web. But I'm glad it works for you.