I bought a house last year and the first thing I did was remove the Ring video doorbell. But if it hadn't been a company with an Amazon or Google type reputation I'd have at least tried using it for a while.
I would think the odds are much higher of a smaller company either a) selling your data to everyone that they can get money from, or b) just not having the tech skills to keep secure.
Note that I am not criticizing you not wanting to use it at all. Just curious that if it was another name, you would have been ok with it.
I think the point was that with Google or Amazon, you know what their real motive is. With another product, they might actually just be selling a security camera.
Maybe you're right that the odds that another company could be trusted are low enough not to be a distinction compared to companies I know I don't trust.
That said, I mind signing up for throwaway services less because it's easy to use a fake name/email, which is becoming less an option for the major services, who try to enforce real identities and revoke accounts without consequences.
I don't know about that. Amazon and Google have a decent track record of being bad about data privacy, and the size of a company by itself says nothing about that company's expertise.
I checked a while back, and there are at least a couple of smart video doorbells that can be made to work with a local IPTV system. I didn't end up doing it[0], but it does seem possible.
[0]- I wanted to monitor for deliveries, but COVID kind of trivialized that for a year.
