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There was a lot of discussion from ex-Ubnt employees in a January 2021 thread※ related to outsourcing and incompetent management. From what I've read, they still show ads for their products in newer Unifi Controller web interfaces and don't have a way of disabling tracking.

But now that the Krebs retraction has occurred, my brain doesn't know how bad/incompetent Ubiquiti is these days.

Is there an updated-for-2022 source of info on Ubiquiti's problems? ie. what complaints are still valid, and which ones are not valid due to the cyber blackmail incident?

I was a big supporter from 2015-2019 and I still run their AC Lite AP + EdgeRouterX, but haven't updated them beyond 2019 firmware.

※ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735032

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It's solidified incredibly over the last year. It no longer requires centralized login, no longer shows ads (or you can opt out of them. I don't see it one way or another).

More importantly, the network infrastructure has gotten much much better. I haven't had any stability issues other then testing our new early adopter firmware, and the first versions of policy based load balancing have landed.

> It no longer requires centralized login

Thanks for the update. I have a couple of UAP-AC-Lites and an EdgeRouter PoE, but the recent "cloudiness" began to set my teeth on edge, and I've been loath to upgrade my controller.

Recent updates to the base UDM have been noticeably better than before. I don’t know what they’re doing differently but I hope they continue along this trajectory.

Yeah, the investment is showing. I just installed a UDR at my parents place, and it's awesome. Provides not only the UDM functionality, but also VOIP or cameras out of the box - with everything in a fully managed state.

They are doing a lot of enterprisey bits right now, but I think their more prosumer stuff is also doing well.

I was a bit disappointed with my Dream Machine Pro at the start, but now it's getting there - they now even provide a simple VPN solution that work on top of Wireguard.

What's still missing is more advance routing exposed in the interface (like dnat) and it would be perfect. I have another one deployed in a shop and it's working fine, even with the harsh hardware condition it's put in (lot of dirt/dust from auto mechanics, even if it's protected in a rack high in the room)

Do you have a link to the UDM Wireguard docs? I want to upgrade to one, but not until there is official support for wg tunnels

Also see [1] from HN user `_pplp` who was an ex-employee of Ubiqitui, and my own comments when this all first came out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29455730

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