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Your house seems more welcoming with a QR code? Scanning it seems like a hassle for visitors. I'd probably just knock.

account42 2y ago
You'd knock? Depending on our relationship I'd just leave. Especially after being asked to take a photo - I already dislike video doorbells but sending a picture via an app where it will be stored for who knows how long is not something I'll go along with.
- JohnFen 2y ago
  I answered assuming that the house belongs to a friend or loved one, or that I have some important reason I want the occupant's immediate attention. In those situations, I'd knock. I do very strongly prefer a QR code thing to something like a Ring (as long as the QR code isn't going to a service such as Ring), though, but neither is better than knocking.
- grvdrm 2y ago
  Dislike why?
  - JohnFen 2y ago
    I dislike them because the odds are overwhelming that they're sending the video off to some company I don't trust. I'm pretty averse to being spied on (especially by companies), even in relatively innocuous ways. I don't like even being in neighborhoods where these things are in common use. Privacy issues aside, I take a prevalence of surveillance systems as an indication that the area they're in is an undesirable place to be. Either it's actually dangerous, or the people living in them think it's dangerous. Either way, that's a bad sign.
    - grvdrm 2y ago
      Hm. I think a lot of new homes (around me) have cameras. Just built with them by developer/etc. I have cameras around the outside of my house. Not worried about crime (despite it seeming otherwise). I don't look at the video feed when people ring my doorbell. Cameras have been helpful: - Someone accidentally backed into my house. Camera caught it. - Something was delivered that required my attention. Was able to walk back from another house to meet them (knowing they were at my door) - Check out branches/etc. falling on my cars during high wind

You'd knock? Depending on our relationship I'd just leave. Especially after being asked to take a photo - I already dislike video doorbells but sending a picture via an app where it will be stored for who knows how long is not something I'll go along with.

JohnFen 2y ago
I answered assuming that the house belongs to a friend or loved one, or that I have some important reason I want the occupant's immediate attention. In those situations, I'd knock. I do very strongly prefer a QR code thing to something like a Ring (as long as the QR code isn't going to a service such as Ring), though, but neither is better than knocking.
grvdrm 2y ago
Dislike why?
- JohnFen 2y ago
  I dislike them because the odds are overwhelming that they're sending the video off to some company I don't trust. I'm pretty averse to being spied on (especially by companies), even in relatively innocuous ways. I don't like even being in neighborhoods where these things are in common use. Privacy issues aside, I take a prevalence of surveillance systems as an indication that the area they're in is an undesirable place to be. Either it's actually dangerous, or the people living in them think it's dangerous. Either way, that's a bad sign.
  - grvdrm 2y ago
    Hm. I think a lot of new homes (around me) have cameras. Just built with them by developer/etc. I have cameras around the outside of my house. Not worried about crime (despite it seeming otherwise). I don't look at the video feed when people ring my doorbell. Cameras have been helpful: - Someone accidentally backed into my house. Camera caught it. - Something was delivered that required my attention. Was able to walk back from another house to meet them (knowing they were at my door) - Check out branches/etc. falling on my cars during high wind