They sent me 3 Black Friday notifications. Even one is annoying, but three?
I’ve been wanting to ditch Eufy since they backpedaled on their privacy guarantees and started linking people’s faces across accounts. This may be enough to push me over the edge.
It’s a Eufy advertisement… if they sent other ads I’d be mad, but I kinda expect all venders to recommend more of their own products…
You’ve missed the part where they abused a notification category for unrelated content.
Android has notification categories for the purpose of giving you more control over which notifications you allow and block for a given app. I believe the determination of notification categories and what goes in which category is entirely up to the app developer - I assume there aren’t any technical restrictions, and I’m not sure if there are any particular rules that Google makes them agree to. But if nothing else, naming a category “Motion detected” or similar and including adverts is a dick move.
This is what they’re doing to make up for the money they lose when people like me buy their cheap cameras and then use them on a vlan with RTSP so we don’t see the ads or send eufy any data.
I held out on home assistant for a while and am so glad I made the jump - every time I see some post like this or issues on the nest subreddit it just reinforces I did the right thing
I’m so glad I have HomeKit and don’t have to rely on their app for notifications at all. This is some shady crap!