Anker’s Eufy erased these 10 privacy promises instead of answering our questions

Bought one of their doorbells that claimed to work offline. Nope. It refused to function without an internet connection to contact a server in China. And if you disconnected it via firewall rules it would audibly (very loud) complain that it was disconnected.

Eufy. Never again.

Ankers charging products haven't let me down, yet. Is there an alternative to those chairing products that isnt CCP managed?

They are pulling a TikTok. When they got caught red handed and called out they moved their privacy goal post to "Oh... well... your data is safe with us! The CCP will never see it. We promise"

They make surveillance cameras and "smart" home tech. Two types of product that are anti-privacy when not run completely locally. Not surprising at all.

I am surprised that people are surprised.

Claims are easy to make, there different degrees of evidence, and Eufy failed at a low bar.

to some extent if they had a bug bounty for reported issues that with give some confidence; albeit confidence to the small proportion of people who are wary of claims.

If they think this is going to stop the class action lawsuit, they are sorely mistaken.

Is the VLC stream on the local network or publically available? If it's just on the local I don't see the issue?