If I found something interesting on Amazon I will check if there is a independent shop online that sells it (almost always has a Amazon shop too).
Even if I know the brand and the model: there are many fake products on Amazon. Especially when they are produced in China by a Chinese frim: e.g. Anker, who deliver great products if you are not getting fake ones...
What subreddit? Because neither on HN nor Reddit, I ever see anything positive about Amazon.
Amazon is just filled with scams and fakes now.
Not instant, but often quite manageable.
Also if you continue supporting Chinese sellers on Amazon, this would still encourage these behaviors.
But yeah, back to the point… Amazon don’t appear to want to fix this broken system or they’d have done it years ago. It still makes them money.
Just give someone an actual link, to an actual article. Like this: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23486753/anker-eufy-secu...
> Despite claims of only using local storage with its security cameras, Eufy has been caught uploading identifiable footage to the cloud. And it’s even possible to view the camera streams using VLC.
(Personally, this means I won't buy an Eufy camera, and it doesn't change the fact that Anker's chargers have been far better made and reliable than their competitors in my experience.)
For example, for the Anker power adapters we've tested: https://pqs.app/devices?categoryId=1&search=anker. We're also trying to turn it into a business.
I’ve already spent a huge amount of my time on that story, being in direct talks with the security researcher before the story exploded - I even helped raise a lot of awareness. So excuse me if I wanted to just quickly mention a quick, no need to sift, route to the info.
(If you happen to see a car on the researchers Twitter running over a Eufy system - that was one of the many things I did for awareness lol).
No, it's aimed specifically at this one.
YouTube's search results vary from person to person. I don't know which video you want me to watch - Paul Moore's five minute one? Den of Tools' eight minute one? Byte of Geek's nine minute one? Something else?
At the very least, since you've got a video in mind, link to it, but text remains a way better medium for this sort of thing.
Don’t get me wrong, I know your youtube probably looks different to mine as we probably have differing interests. But I didn’t know Youtube search results varied from person to person - this is news to me.
Even if they didn't saying "it's the top result for ____" STILL isn't helpful. Loads of people make videos designed to rank high for "in" topics. So if it's the top result today it's probably outranked tomorrow by a larger channel.
They've linked many of your devices together so you will see the same consistent videos/results unless you compare with other people, at places that are not your home location.
That sounds like RTSP to me, which makes the rest questionable.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/eufys-no-clouds-came...
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/eufy-camera-cloud-uploa...
They upload the data required for mobile notifications to a CDN, which any one of us would likely do.
The other half of the controversy is that they upload a facial identifier for the same notification... if you have facial recognition for notifications turned on.
The hook-up has a more informed take on the issue: https://youtu.be/a_rAXF_btvE. I'm not sure if he was previously a software engineer, but he certainly seems to understand the problem Eufy faced like one.
My take-away is that they should have been more transparent about some form of upload being an unavoidable reality for mobile notifications in their marketing material.