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The video is about Amazon Ring cameras taking away promised functionality post-purchase, and demanding a subscription fee to enable it. You also cannot tell the cameras to connect to your own server to self-host that functionality.

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The inability to self-host probably violates terms of service agreement. If I'm not mistaken, Amazon Ring wants total control over recordings and E2E functionality; a blessing and a curse. I understand cloud and device security costs money, however it's giving bait-and-switch which I thought was illegal. Amazon could frame it as they are providing best-in-business cryptography and storage at low latency, with customer trust being central driving factor. However, this all falls apart when we consider Amazon also created a "reality" TV show using Ring customer data. Yikes.

Without a subscription, what are the benefits of owning a Ring cam? Does the customer have any control of Ring functionality with respect to data privacy, or is it really just Amazon-controlled surveillance tech?

why am i reminded of ransomware? maybe because extortion means punishment, if you dont pay, but ransomware, means return to square one if you pay. i hope this kind of behavior gets the interaction required, to end it.

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