Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoNope. Ring cameras are part of Amazon Sidewalk which is effectively an automatic, invisible, and not end-user-controllable wireless mesh network “meant to keep devices working during wifi outages” or in other words to ensure the data makes it back to the cloud at any cost.
Their are more and more device manufacturers starting to use techniques like this to ensure connection regardless of owner intent.
krashmo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can’t say that’s surprising but I have only heard of smart TVs having been confirmed to do that