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Comment by amacneil | Hacker News Reader

Ubiquiti hardware and software is still amazing, and I'm willing to bet there are far more satisfied users than the few people grumbling on this forum. Cloud login is not mandatory if you choose not to enable it.

No products are perfect, but for the use case of "more technical than average user" looking for better quality than your typical home-grade gear, I have not found anything better or more polished.

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That’s actually not true anymore. After their latest update, my cloud key plus gen 2 requires me to sign on using their SSO. Not something you can remove anymore. Lots of people are (rightly) up in arms about this That being said, I still love my Ubiquiti products

We bought their rack-mounted NVR for the office to replace our old UniFi Video system, but have yet to start using it, because we can't find a way around the SSO.

Critique about it on their forums is removed by moderators.

Interesting. My UDM has an option to disable remote sign in (although I have not used it). I guess that may still require cloud SSO but simply disable remote provisioning, in which case that seems like it would solve the vast majority of use cases people would have.

Of course, if you want a locally managed device and have a relatively simple topology there are plenty of other brands and products out there. I personally love the cloud sign in &. remote provisioning.

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