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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 7 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras.

Online, videos of people removing or destroying their Ring cameras have gone viral. One video posted by Seattle-based artist Maggie Butler shows her pulling off her porch-facing camera and flipping it the middle finger.

Butler explained that she originally bought the camera to protect against package thefts, but decided the pet-tracking system raised too many concerns about government access to data.

"They aren't just tracking lost dogs, they're tracking you and your neighbors," Butler said in the video that has more than 3.2 million views.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 24 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My personal choice for security stuff is ubiquiti, but I'm sure someone here can find a super cheap doorbell camera that saves to an SD card and accomplishes the same thing.

I'm really glad people didn't just fall over for this ad, and connected the dots on what Amazon is doing

[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Reolink doorbell cameras don’t need to be connected to the cloud. They can record to an SD card or upload to an FTP server. You can connect to them with RTSP and run your own NVR if you want too.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 points 41 minutes ago

+1 for Reolink. I have those and UniFi cameras tied to my UniFi system.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Hmm yes, I understand some of these acronyms. /s

[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

SD - Secure Digital (memory card you’d use for most things)

FTP - File Transfer Protocol (a way to upload files to a server)

RTSP - Real Time Streaming Protocol (a way to stream video)

NVR - Network Video Recorder (a device that records video)

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