2026-02-13 04:26 UTC
Replies (8)
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@hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2026-02-13 05:02
>I honestly didn't know what they were thinking with that commercial. Why would you proudly advertise that you've built a massive surveillance network Presumably because most end users are in deep with the "if you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about" crowd ... and besides it can find a lost dog /s. They brought these sorts of intrusive cameras in the first place so privacy was not top of mind, or even in 2nd or 3rd place.
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@Tradwench@thelemmy.club 2026-02-13 06:59
Tbh I think the people at the top still haven't caught up with the rapid changing sentiments among the population. My zero-tech-savy retired mother in-law was talking to me about Palantir the other day.
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@baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-13 12:36
My guess is that since Ring has a history of well-known collaborations with police and ICE, they wanted to re-frame their evil surveillance network as a way to save a puppy. Instead, lots of uninformed normies suddenly realized what those cameras are capable of, and had a huge negative reaction given the state of things.
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@groats_survivor@lemmy.world 2026-02-13 05:30
Because in 3 weeks most people will forget about it. It's brazen. They'll still be the biggest doorbell company in America
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@kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2026-02-13 05:19
They product does exactly what their customers want. Just the latter had not realised the implications for _their own_ privacy, before the commercial, apparently.
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@FatVegan@leminal.space 2026-02-13 12:47
People are really fucking stupid to buy their products in the forst place. So that's what they were thinking and they were right.
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@prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-02-13 13:33
These people are so fucking out of touch that it's ridiculous
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@Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 2026-02-14 05:53
Because the most evil people on the planet are *universally* convinced that they're heroes.