Ring was ALWAYS a mass surveillance tool.

Gonna send this to my MIL so I don't have to come to family gatherings anymore

So many modern technologies would be incredibly cool if they weren't operated by untrustworthy people.

This post is fantastic for 2 reasons:

1. It's so important to raise awareness of how these 'conveniences' like the Ring Doorbell are being turned into the chains that will bind society

2. This post includes an in-image cite with both text url and a QR! This should be standard on any image post like this.

Well played.

And you know what they want to see?

Ballsacks and butt holes. Ding-dong motherfuckers.

I don't have ring, but my neighbor on the left is Mexican, the one on the right is Romanian. The porno guy on the corner is something (he watches with the curtains open). The Russians down at the end are probably dealing drugs. There's a sweet black family two down.

Bite my ass. I don't know a single one of them, but you Nazi MFers aren't taking them.

Anyone paying attention knows Ring has been using these doorbells in full cooperation with politice departments for something like a decade or more.

If you didn't know they were doing this, you need to pay better attention. Throw that shit away if you own one.

They must love being paid monthly for it too. Or is the ring doorbell a yearly sub? 🤷

Paying for the device to be spied upon is one thing, but paying a subscription to be continuously spied upon is another.

Carrying it around in our pockets and bringing it everywhere we go, is another thing altogether..

If this is a surprise to somebody, I question their critical thinking skills.

Flock is going to offer facial recognition services to the cities that have flock cameras already installed. Adding ring cameras just adds to the ability of their network. Privacy nightmare

Lots of local-only options out there for security cameras. Doorbell cameras may be a little harder to find, but it looks like they exist.

I have a few Amcrest PoE bullet cameras, and they work great local-only. They're on a separate VLAN, only my server can talk to them, and I have had zero problems with them. They even support NTP, which my router provides, so the clocks stay synced with no intervention. I'm running them with Frigate.

dang, the mass surveillance device disguised as convenience strikes again! and of course a majority are also paying via subscription for even more “convenience”

I don't have one, or any other corporate spy device inside or outside.

My solution to the door is to not answer it unless I know someone is coming over. Simple as. You never NEED to answer your door. If the cops are coming in, they don't care if you answer, or not. Everyone else can call first.

Ring has been a subsidiary of Amazon for years now. They comply with warrants, and ‘emergency requests’ from law enforcement in some cases.

Installing one of these things and sending 24/7 video and audio data of activity on your property and anything else in the camera view has always been a wet dream for people obsessed with perfect information and surveillance.

The previous resident left one next to the front door of our place and it seems to work great without power or data. Never had a problem.

Maybe we could design a sticker for the camera that explains that.

With the camera covered, it can still be used as a doorbell. And if they remove it, I guess we can't help them.

Yep almost all of these things are super sketch

It’s sad that it’s 2026 and tough to find a good ONVIF doorbell. Apparently the new reolink models require the reolink hub. I just want something local I can connect to home assistant that works well…

If anyone has recommendations, I’d appreciate them. Watched a lot of YouTube and a lot of conflicting takes out there where one review is terrible and another sounds like it must be sponsored with how much they love it.

What a shame. Nothing new unfortunately. When amazing bought ring it went down hill fast. I had a ring cam and a nest camera inside. Before Google bought nest I could use the cameras live view to check on my dog. Once Google bought it they updated the user agreement and you have to agree to give Google full access to the camera 24/7. Fuck that man. Ive come to realize that a camera system with local storage is the only way to go. Which is pricey unfortunately

Do any of yall know of any decent brands with local storage?

My brother has one :(

I can't think of a way of talking to him about it, which wouldn't make him want to use it more.

My doorbell doesn't even work, let alone record anything. It works for me real well as a decoy for a working doorbell.

Anyone got any open-source alternatives?