guy who came to clean my car has a friend overseas who runs a business around a glitch that lets you bypass Ring's monthly payments while still using the platform. charges a one-off fee and you get a lifetime account without paying. I lol'd hard. couldn't happen to a nicer company.
@gsuberland LMAOWUT??? People *pay* for Ring? I thought it was something they get for "free" paid in surveillance. 🤡
@dalias it's a monthly subscription on top of the cost of the units and the install fee.
it's batshit.
@dalias not a small fee, either. guy was telling me he got quoted over £1000 for an install, and £60 a month in subscription fees. actual insanity. especially when you consider that the market is now saturated with cheaper alternatives that have the same specs and features, and don't come with quite as awful a reputation for selling surveillance data (although I wouldn't trust any of them regardless).
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@gsuberland whaaaaa? I'm on Ring, yeah, I wanna migrate away, but it's like $10/mo or $100/yr for cloud video storage for "unlimited" devices (I haven't pushed the definition of that, we have 5 cameras).
The replacements I'm looking at will have on-site storage (which I hope doesn't get burgled), but the server for that will cost well over its lifetime in subscription fees (part of why I haven't jumped yet).
Cc @dalias