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I am sorry to be that guy, and I think it is good that you realized it your self, but how could you trust them with your videofeeds in the first place?

Like, I remember thinking the GNU guys were hippie crackpots. But it was like 15 years ago and I have forgot how to relate to that feeling... it is like realizing all my colleagues are not using adblockers and visit sites with ads. I just can't understand.

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I still feel that anyone who insists on "GNU/Linux" is a hippie crackpot.

> I am sorry to be that guy, and I think it is good that you realized it your self, but how could you trust them with your videofeeds in the first place?

In my case, I received a ring doorbell as a gift. I ran it for several years and replaced it with Reolink on a vlan.

Well to be fair I've used some silly and expensive Meater Plus thermometer that needed an Android app just because I got is as a gift from my father in law and wanted to be able to at least tell him I used it.

It is hard to turn down present with "it will spy on me" when ordinary people think a thermometer can't. But I am quite sure I would refuse to install a SaaS CCTV.

To be fair, when I had a Ring camera it wasn't owned by Amazon and they weren't sharing my data with the police.

Ah, but they WERE stalking their customers. Although that continued into Amazon too.

And to be clear, when I say stalking, I mean it literally:

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ring-security-cameras-gave...

> In August of 2017, a supervisor discovered what the employee was doing only "after the supervisor noticed that the male employee was only viewing videos of 'pretty girls,'" the complaint alleges. That employee was terminated, the filing says.

Phew -- I am definitely not a "pretty girl".

Seriously, though, I'm glad that I ditched Ring and that it only pointed at my walkway.

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