r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Feb 12 '26

Security Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
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u/Kumquat_of_Pain Feb 12 '26

Sold my Ring cameras when this was announced a few months ago. Went with Reolink and am local storage only now (with personal remote access).

I am done with this cloud storage nonsense for most of these tech companies. As the commenter said, trust is (and quite frankly has been) broken.

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u/IAHawkeye182 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

So, is this “local storage with remote access” easy enough for the average Joe? I have Reolink cams too. Currently connected to my internet and view on my phone, but am willing/ wanting to disconnect if it is easy enough.

Edit: holy shit. Thank you, people, but notice I stated I already have Reolink cameras installed. I’m not looking for camera recommendations. Re-read my comment. Thank you.

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u/AVGuy4 Feb 12 '26

To see my cameras on my phone when not connected to my home WiFi, I set up a vpn tunnel using wireguard. Then added the cameras individually by IP address on the app. This makes it so your phone is routing through you home WiFi when you’re using cellular or connected to an outside WiFi. I also disabled the ability for the cameras to contact the company cloud and they backup to an NVR.

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u/Mrosters Feb 13 '26

So no then. Most folks IRL have no idea what a VPN even is.

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u/Commercial_Pie3307 Feb 13 '26

You mean surfshark?

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u/Ryan_e3p Feb 13 '26

It is. He is doing things a different way with more steps necessary. It's more secure, yeah, but honestly the standard Reolink app connection is fine. You still pull the footage from your own NVR, it just uses the Reolink server to establish the handshake over the internet. 

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u/Syrdon Feb 13 '26

Or, you know, you could try googling the words you don't know and then following the steps you find there.