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		josephcsible on Feb 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cameras worked fine, but their maker said they... > It’s really hard for the average user to even tell what’s local and what’s not. Especially when there's no legal consequences for manufacturers publicly and unambiguously lying about it. Remember how Anker said that their Eufy product line stored all of your data locally, and then they didn't get punished when the truth came out?

pixl97 on Feb 20, 2023 [–]

Exactly. You could buy a local device and then run a manufacturers update and suddenly you have a non downgradable online device.

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