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You don’t need 1TB and neither does ring.

I have a Eufy camera setup that uses in-home storage. There’s about a year of data on a 64GB SD card that cost maybe $30.

You’re buying a camera. Amazon is getting a perpetual license to everything that happened in front of your home, forever. The cloud story is about analytics and data mining. You buy a camera, they get a feed.

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Someone should invent pass-through hardware encrypt-video-on-a-fly box and send to AMZN encrypted garbage.

Same box would decrypt data on read for authorized user.

AMZN wants to monetize your feed?

Sell them subscription for access the feed with clear usage license. No sneaky, default, subtle crap "we will use your data and monetize it forever at our will without your concent"

This is basically the idea behind HomeKit Secure Video -> https://www.imore.com/homekit-secure-video-everything-you-ne... .

Remote access? Display solutions? Alerting? Availability? Backups? Ease of config? It's totally dependent on your use case.

Did you have to Port forward or set up a VPN for local viewing? Just that will stop 95% of users.

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