Holy fucking 1984 psy op shit!
Wow, I mean, with all the disgusting implications to this, you gotta hand it to their marketing team.
Yeah finding the one application that people would support. Everyone loves dogs, well everyone except for our political and business leaders. ie the president and epstein and their like, they hate dogs, go figure.
Ew wtf
fuck those snitch ass doorbells
Phew we don’t have ring here, at least not everywhere
They’re not only rolling out the total surveillance society- they are making people pay for it and subscribe to monthly fees for the privilege.
How else are we going to know who is at the door? I mean, I guess we could open it but that’s boring
Or you could do what I do and just don’t answer the door.
This is horrifying.
Should we buy ring nodes and feed them poisoned video feed?
Benn Jordan was recently doing work on poisoned audio files, making it so models are damaged by ingesting his music. I believe the same should be possible with video streams.
They probably won’t be training on the poisoned nodes, but they sure as hell will be wasting power on them. That makes it more expensive to do this stuff, no?
For me personally, I wouldn’t consider it worth the risk. You still have to make an Amazon account, hand over your personal information, let their cameras onto your network (of course, you can VLAN them) and… how many people are gonna do this to make it effective?
It just seems playing right into their hands, I’d rather outright boycott anything Amazon (I understand easier for some than others) than waste my time, money and effort into protecting my personal info against a user hostile company.
I agree, that’s the most practical approach and I wouldn’t blame anyone for choosing it. For me personally, though, I’m a little pissed off that these companies get to have such inhostile environment for their shenanigans. It’s like a playground for them, where they get to happily A|B test the various surveillance state softwares that will eventually get sold to oppressive regimes (just like Flock). I’m at a point where I’m willing to spend a not-so-insignificant portion of my time, energy, and know-how on inventing a little bit more friction for them. It shouldn’t be so easy for them to fuck us. They didn’t even offer dinner, first.
What brand do people recommend to switch family members off to? I self host my security but for other family that aren’t tech savvy at all which brands are good for privacy and intuitive to use?
suggest a peep hole and a door knocker, don’t over comolicate shit, and have a little faith in other people
I was with you until the last part
Which mass surveillance fear product?
There isn’t one.
Reolink. The cameras record to a SD card and the app connects to the cameras over the local network. The app can connect to the cameras remotely through Reolink’s servers for convenience, but it’s not necessary to use their cloud services. I block mine from the internet in the firewall.
this is precisely my setup too.
Wife can even get to them when she’s out because she has tailscale connecting her phone to the home network via my headscale control node, not that she could tell you that
I wonder how hard it would be to rework this advertisements to be what it’s actually used for:
- Immigrants spotted! Administrative warrant issued, ICE deployed!
- Automatic License Plate Recognition with Flock (now a partner), found a “criminal”. Administrative warrant issued, ICE deployed!
- etc.
Wait is flock seriously now partnered with ring?
Has been since October
Gross, I had no clue. Now I might need to find replacements.
Not might.
Have to.
Ring was already “partnered” pretty closely with law enforcement, this is more of a consolidation than a new development. I’ve been saying this since they first floated the concept of CLOUD BASED SURVEILLANCE DOORBELLS but the whole idea is fucked. If you really feel a need for monitoring like that, set it up yourself. A corporation handling it is worse than nothing
Ew wtf
This is not real right… Right… It’s a joke right? I hate the world because I really can’t tell.
It’s been real for a long time now, this is how ring works. You have to manually turn this stuff off and no one does.
There are some informative videos on this spy network.
my newest neighbors are having ring cameras installed in my apartment building and that combined with the knowledge that ring shares this data to the highest bidder (which is often the gov’t), i feel like my civil rights are being violated every time i have to walk past the ring cameras every time i walk out my front door. lol
I don’t know if you live in a state where you just get shot for nocking but calling the bell and explaining your concerns to them usually works at least for me.
it’s more peculiar than that: the ring cameras were installed over a month ago, but neither tenants have moved in yet and they both clearly have money since they’ve both had their apartment renovated by professionals instead of the landlord’s maintenance guys.
i’m guessing that these apartments are just their “city home” and i doubt that they will take kindly to a poor telling them how to live.
It’s real. I watched it with my mouth hanging open. I know the capability has been there for a while but openly advertising it as a good truly shocked me.
My wife and I yelled at the same time when that ad played. Insanely dystopian.
Ew wtf
Are you aware you posted thrice?
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It takes more than one post to describe how fucked this is
it makes you wonder what the world would be like if people had this reaction to smartphones from the beginning.
There should be a version where they’re brown and at the end they suddenly get bags put over their heads by Trump’s paramilitary.
“since launch, more than a dog a day has been reunited with their family”
Yeah, because cats know how to evade the fascist state. All Cats Are Beautiful …
I mean there are some ugly damn cats, for real.
Shut up. No. There. Is. Not!
goblin mode
I would massage all of his scalp wrinkles.
Ah i am feel ashamed. I wanted to put besides hairless cats. But i knew there are like a dozen cute ones in total. So i didnt thinking i was being mean.
Im gonna downvote my own comment.
Don’t take the precious! Smeagol wants it!
Ugly but cute. If hairless, 🤮.
In this case the other end of the cat is cuter.
That is a chupacabra. Not a cat.
Fucking dumbasses losing their dogs every day.
400ish found out of 10 million is…incredibly pathetic, lol.
It’s apparently enough justification to get people to consent to having their doorbell cams used for surveillance by 3rd parties 🫠
Yall do it with your smartphones and your airtags anyway.
I consented to that when i accepted the EULAs on all the stuff i signed up for online over the years. I’m not consenting to this though! 😉
AirTag doesn’t have facial recognition. Also there is no reverse engineering who an AirTag belongs to. Not even Apple can see in their databases.
And if I upload a photo of a brown-skinned person?
