Agreed. Or worse: for documentation!

Man, you should have seen forums at hobby sites, etc in the times before Reddit/Digg…

You’ve seen packing tape in real life, right? It’s not “almost impossible to see”, it’s shiny and obvious. As much as I love skirting draconian measures, that ain’t it…

In this comment section: S P E C U L A T I O N, presented as fact.

Practicing what you preach. Right on…

It was just a coffee hiccup.

You may be right, but they literally wrote “from 2016”. So yeah, I read that as “Since 2016 onwards…”

You’re not arguing from a position of strength if your personal anecdote is performance issues, 8 years ago.

Somebody’s never worked retail. Yeah, there’s no way they’ll do that. Maybe at a small independently-owned store? Otherwise, there’s no way they’re even allowed to do that!

Worse than being a pro-privacy company that utterly depends on Google?

I know we’re all thinking it, but people paying attention feel that way because… it’s creepy, it’s not useful, it’s not something they initiated, and they don’t get a clear benefit from it.

At least Google stuff is usable

Briefly. I applaud your de-Googling. More of us need to do that…

It would be better if he had a whole pack full of them, and used the skillets up by throwing them at enemies.

Damn, you sound like a legendary DM!

If any writers are reading this, and don’t act on it… what are you even doing!?

They’re complaining about being recorded walking up to a door. Which will 100% always be someone else’s property and not public in the context of this discussion.

Why are you so angry? Damn. This is a privacy forum. So of course we want privacy! I’ll even grant you that a person who owns their home is allowed to record and archive every single moment of every single person who visits (creepy). But not every person owns their own home. As I mentioned, I currently rent, as do about 45 million households in the US. That’s the majority of all people under 35! So now that ownership isn’t an issue, is my neighbor allowed to record every time I go to work, get food delivered, see who visits me and when, etc? Their camera is pointed right at my doorway and activates every time I open it. Legally maybe, but that doesn’t make it right…

EDIT: Notice they’ll downvote me, but can’t back up their emotions with facts…

It’s not. The people are psychos…

“Their property (and what it records off their property) is more important than your privacy.”

Not everyone has the luxury of owning their own home. My apartment neighbor has a doorbell camera pointed directly at my doorway that activates every time I open my door to go to work, get food delivered, etc. Huge privacy violation, but our doors face each other, so I guess that’s legal…

if we can’t disable them without root we probably can’t disable the network access either.

Complete bullshit and utter speculation.