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What’s the point? Even if you have a great video of a dude stealing your packages nobody will arrest or do anything about it.
by rdtwo 4y ago
What’s the point? Even if you have a great video of a dude stealing your packages nobody will arrest or do anything about it.
- adastra22 4y agoI used to have things stolen off my porch frequently. After installing a Ring camera, that ended immediately and never happened again. It did seem to work as a deterrent.
- parkingrift 4y agoYou don’t have to pick a dystopian spyware camera to deter porch theft. This attitude is why we can’t have nice things.
- adastra22 4y agoWhat is the issue with a porch camera looking out into a low traffic public space like my own personal driveway? I seriously don't understand the complaint here, and I say this as someone who has a Faraday pouch for my phone and a policy of no AI "assistants" WITHIN the house.
- parkingrift 4y agoThere isn’t any issue with a camera. The issue is that you lazily picked the spyware camera from Amazon.
- adastra22 4y ago…and? I’m paying them for a service if handling recording and integration with the app, etc. What is the problem here?
- deltree7 4y agoI will have my own definition of dystopia and not rely on some privileged HNers definition. Thank you very much
- tomjakubowski 4y agoSince the camera is a good deterrent, would you then consider disabling the service?
- adastra22 4y agoWhy would I? It faces my private driveway which, is my property in a public space. I have absolutely no qualms about that being recorded.
- wlecometo 4y agothis is exactly why i added a fake camera in front of my door.
- mulmen 4y agoThe point is it helps prosecutors build a case when serial package thieves are eventually caught. This happened in my neighborhood a few years ago.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoYou also know very quickly you have a package at your door, or someone has entered your drive way. If you are home, you can “greet” them which usually scares them off. Even if aren’t home, you can greet them with the speaker. I wake up pretty quickly at night when my nest person detected alert goes off. I live in the back town house, so fortunately I don’t get much random person passing by traffic to set off false alarms.