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bee_rideryesterday at 3:15 PM1 replyview on HN

If Reddit is an ok representation of semi-techy/nerdy Americans it is probably(?) a good representation of Ring Doorbell customers, right?


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dathinabyesterday at 5:06 PM

not sure,

from the not very representative context of people I know/where I live (not US):

Ring customers are often old overly worried people which "don't really care anymore" about ideal (often due to an over exposure to fear inducing propaganda, like the kind of stuff which first ties to make you think you live in far more danger then you do and then blames it on immigrants; And ring them comes in by being cheap, reliable and convenient and maybe the only AD reaching that demography. Worries about privacy are on the other hand shadowed by fear about people breaking in and beating them up.)

Other people needing cameras tend care more about privacy ideals and do more research. In turn they won't use ring.

And people not needing cameras most times also really don't want there to be cameras, especially not internet connected ones.

Through in general the relationship to surveillance is very different here compared to what it seems to be in the US.