I dropped WD after buying, and returning, their WD MyCloud Home device. I expected, per their advertisements, a cheap barebones LAN visible NAS with SMB shares

I dropped WD after buying, and returning, their WD MyCloud Home device. I expected, per their advertisements, a cheap barebones LAN visible NAS with SMB shares. What i got was basically a self hosted google drive that: - doesn't work without internet even on LAN - can be accessed as SMB share only with WD spyware installed! - WD spyware crashed my graphics drivers - WD spyware works only when there is internet connection available - can be only managed via internet - costs more than space on any cloud storage provider for self hosted solution - you have utter lack of privacy as they scan, and analyze each file on your drive as per their ToS, same thing with their application - hence i call it spyware.