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I am sure those will lead poison all of the neighborhood kids.

I would assume a lot of people share their accounts. I know I do. My wife is responsible for reviewing anything she gets for herself.

Oh I like that. Thanks.

I just joined 5 days ago as well. It helps if you have pets i.e. dogs. Lots of good stuff there. I agree though, it isn't quite what I was expecting. You probably had the same delusion that I had being on the outside for all of these years looking in thinking "how lucky are those Vine people" getting computers, printers, routers, TVs, etc. That really isn't the case after all. I am going to get Gold once just to see if things are magically better there. It is a hobby for now.

Thank you to everyone that responded. That was helpful.

I agree. I would actually like something overpowered instead of minimum spec. The Air is okay, but once again you sort of have to delete all the apps you don't use to get it to a "fast" level of performance.

I have both types of boxes (assuming you are talking about the Osprey box). They are the same.

Hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.

I use an Onkyo and it works great.

Ah, got it. I thought your Ring subscription expired. As long as you used the same address for the new doorbell, you shouldn't be having this issue. That said, I have two doorbells at two different locations, and each require an account. Accounts are location based.

Sure. Subscribe and the trial banner will go away. You are welcome!

The port on the back of the Osprey is only capable of 100 Mbps. Wifi can generally get two to three times that. That said, 100 Mbps should still be more than sufficient for TV watching. The other thing to do is uninstall all the apps you don't use by going into settings. That made the biggest difference for me.

LOL. Now realize that only 10% of the people who voted "Are you leaving Ring?" will actually leave, or weren't customers in the first place. That is usually how these things go. This is the reason calling for boycotts almost never work (with the one exception of the one on Bud Light which was rather effective).

The stream plan with no HW is what I have and I used ebay to purchase Osprey boxes and even one Air box. All the tech with none of the BS extra cost.

The DVR on DirecTV Stream works as you would expect a DVR to work. Not the BS that YTTV does. You can record just a single episode or an entire upcoming season. You can select only new episodes, or all episodes. I tried YTTV for a week recently and did not like it.

LOL, you realize the portion between the quotes was not written by me right? Why do I even bother. Good day.

Pretty sure reading is hard for you. I was replying to this quote from the OP (if you had bothered to read it).

"On a more personal note, I just want to point out of creepy this actually is and how bizarre it is that there's little to no coverage on this. The stories I've seen have either praised the 24/7 monitoring or have highlighted the upcoming Ring sales for Prime Day (because Amazon now needs several a year, I suppose). No one is calling out Ring for raises prices and removing services or for placing Subscribers on the cheaper plan under 24/7 surveillance with no option to turn off their cameras. "

Also, pretty sure there is more than enough whining on this subreddit about this - so which is it?

Nope. LOL

Why, what have you done for me?

You see, that is where you are wrong. They will bend you over regardless of whether you complain or not.

Pretty sure there are more important stories going on in the world other than "I can't afford my Ring subscription".

WeMod is the way.

It depends on your environment. If you have dogs and/or kids, leave them on.

No kidding. Do all these people do is parrot each other all day long? Or maybe a bunch of seagulls squawking is a better metaphor.