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  • AA5B@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.worldI'm sick and tied of cameras
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    9 days ago

    Yeah this is an important consideration and I hope to move to that, however it’s a bigger project than I have time for.

    I have a Ring so the recordings are online and it’s certainly convenient. The basic plan keeps recording up to 180 days but of course once they have them it’s outside our control. It’s a good point that the length of time they’re kept doesn’t seem configurable. I would certainly prefer they be kept a much shorter time but don’t see a way to configure that

    The one time a policeman came around to ask if my camera caught something, they asked me to check on my app and they took my word for it. While I understand they can compel Ring (or me) to give it up, maybe there’s some comfort that’s it’s not a dally worth their effort

    EDIT While the plan says it keeps recordings up to 180 days, the default is 60 days for video and one week if you take snapshots. I did figure out how to set this this shorter but you can assume most people won’t


  • AA5B@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.worldI'm sick and tied of cameras
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    9 days ago

    Are you sure?

    I also have a Ring doorbell camera so I know when someone is at the door.

    • records on motion, not always
    • motion detection has limited range, and Ring has options to tune it to your property line
    • wide angle lens gets really poor with distance.

    I live in a neighborhood where everything is close together so I tested this out. The camera can see there is a person walking on the other side of the street but not well enough to know who it is, plus it won’t be recorded since that is outside motion detection range

    It will record you detectably on my side of the street but I have that mostly configured out. In general it’s not recording you unless you’re on my property l and even if it recorded more, pictures from any distance are extremely poor






  • I’ve been wondering about that, since my Firestick became so removedty that I actually prefer streaming apps on my TV. Most of my devices are already on Apple, so how about this one?

    • I like fewer ads
    • if it’s like the Apple TV app, there’s too much pressure to buy stuff I’m never going to buy.

    So, on the home screen, can you tell which Videos are to purchase without clicking into them? Are things you subscribe to easily distinguishable from god forsaken ad infested ones?