never heard of them but glad to know not to bother. please make sure you review their app, it is really helpful to see this type of thing in app reviews.
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But you’ve probably heard of Anker, who owns Eufy. Eufy is just their smarthome brand. This is 100% Anker making these decisions.
Sure, but I don't trust my house to my battery packs.
Same, but a lot of people bought Eufy because they trusted Anker. Anler had a reputation of making reasonably priced cables & chargers that were still quality. It’s like people buying Hue products because it had the Philips name for instance. Anker decided to cash in all of their brand loyalty for some short term sales of its Eufy lineup.
Eufy does not respect your privacy. Do not give them any of your money.
I’ve also been getting these on my iPhone. I might open a ticket with their support and ask how to stop this nonsense.
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!
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
What does this have to do with home assistant?
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.
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.
I wonder if this is how they subsidize EUFY and soundcore. Soundcore is another sub brand of anchor and they make quality Bluetooth speakers for a cheap price, but yeah… UFY pulling crap like that is not great. Makes me not want to buy anything other than soundcore speakers from anchor. Ridiculous! They also pulled HomeKit integration from their latest devices. Also ridiculous.
Amazon sent me a notification on my echo yesterday trying to sell me batteries because my hue dimmer switch was low.
I’ve ditched Amazon almost entirely. I still have a clock of theirs in the kitchen because I like the traditional analog face but it has a light up face for count down times when cooking. And I have their thermostats, which I don’t ever adjust much - basically it’s just nice to know vacation mode is on, and they were stupid cheap.
Otherwise, I’ve removed all the echo dots and Amazon plugs. Alexa literally interrupted a work meeting, without being prompted or triggered by a wake word, to tell me I should check the app for upcoming deals. Switched over to HomePod minis that week.
Have the clock too. I have echos is every room except in the smallest bedroom that I use as an office when I work from home. I use them quite a lot. I also have echo inputs connected to hifi amps in kitchen and living room paired with their respective echo for spotify and further grouped for full downstairs synced audio. The default should be off for that type of notification, as it is I have to go to devices and scroll through 14 pages of devices on my phone to turn it off individually.
It is off, and it was. Amazon was trialing some new thing. They also like to randomly turn that BS back on. Alexa is just so untrustworthy. It’s constantly trying to hawk me crap I don’t need. “Alexa turn off the kitchen.” “Ok. By the way. You can order more coffee filters by saying ‘Alexa order more coffee fillers’. Would you like me to order more coffee filters?”
I meant my supplies notifications. I should be able to find by device, I’ve a stupid amount of them. Hate the by the way stuff too. That’s why I keep it out of my office.
Notification came back like a bad penny. Had to go in and do 6 individual dimmers, of course it goes back to the top of the 14 pages every time. Doesn’t show what it’s set to in the list, have to go severals level deep. Hate dark patterns. UX designer should be ashamed.
I bought all eufy when I built my house three years ago. And I regret all of it. All junk.
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.