I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.
What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
Let us see that same opinion once you have been the victim of a burglary. I have replaced two back doors to the tune of a few thousand quid. I spent years with higher home insurance because of the claims. Yet they never even got in. My cameras only record when my property line is breeched.
"Oh you don't like the idea of always on cameras monitoring every street at all times? Guess you want burglaries to happen all the time."
Statistically, doorbell cameras don't lower this risk of burglaries. A lot of the claims that they do come from companies selling them.
This study found that they actually increase the risk of being targeted by burglars
All the while you are sticking a camera with a history of shoddy cybersecurity to your home.
Look at this case of harassment that involved the use of a doorbell camera and try to pretend my concerns aren't valid.
Edit: also I don't understand the assertion that if I'd been burgled I'd agree with you. I've had to deal with multiple attempted break-ins, one time I scared a bloke off while he was trying to crowbar the back door open. It still didn't make me want slap cameras on everything.
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