A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras.

Online, videos of people removing or destroying their Ring cameras have gone viral. One video posted by Seattle-based artist Maggie Butler shows her pulling off her porch-facing camera and flipping it the middle finger.

Butler explained that she originally bought the camera to protect against package thefts, but decided the pet-tracking system raised too many concerns about government access to data.

“They aren’t just tracking lost dogs, they’re tracking you and your neighbors,” Butler said in the video that has more than 3.2 million views.

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      12 hours ago

      2 methods

      home assistant (installed on mini pc thru proxmox) via the tapo: camera controls integration

      frigate(installed on a dsm 7.2 synology) via go2rtc (mini pc)

      also i’ve set my routers firewall settings so all the wifi cameras can only see eachother (and the mini pc)

      edit: oh and tailscale

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      12 hours ago

      A file server by Synology will have built-in software for this, or you can get a free one by not using a Synology server