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by nerdponx 249 days ago
Consider not sending your doorbell footage to accompany that has no respect for user privacy, and is now actively partnering with a police surveillance company.
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> now actively partnering with a police surveillance company

You can make this point stronger: Amazon is a police surveillance company (with Ring), just not primarily.

Yeah there are plenty of self-hosted solutions that work just as well.
And it's cheap! If you want JUST cameras it's pennies a day, I'm running a 2010 gaming PC with a dozen services (which would cost >200 bucks from the usual suspects) and it's still only 20 bucks a month.
Blue Iris is a fairly amazing camera hosting solution. I am continually impressed with the quality of the code and feature set. (disclaimer: $80/yr but we actually pay a bit less).