Post about a neighbor warning about a stranger at the door. Most top comments tell OP to get a Ring camera. https://www.reddit.com/r/Apartmentliving/comments/1piqv81/came_back_home_to_this_i_dont_even_wanna_leave_my/
Am I just paranoid or is this fishy?
I've seen posts like that and you're right, they're fishy.
Huge numbers of hokey "community" comments from dodgy users (Human_Entertainer865 in particular) and the post has now been removed. Ring is heavily advertising in Australia (a low crime country) right now - I know this because I see very few ads in my life but I've seen the Ring ones so they're saturating - and this looks very similar.
that is just the username format reddit gives people by default now, it's not a bot thing
i mean yeah some people do choose the default but a bot is 100% more likely to pick the default name than make something up imo..
Check their "contributions" on their profile. Both of these users are not suspicious.
Bots scrub all comments and posts before repeating and will generally have a very low number (<50 lets say)
Probably not, just people susceptible to advertising, Ring were the first mass producer of doorbell cameras and the name "Ring camera" is slowly becoming the default name for any doorbell camera.
Probably easier than saying "get a xiaomi smartbell s3"
Yeah I’ve been seeing weird engagement farming a lot lately.
And with ring partnering with flock it’s even more dystopian.
It is. It's guerilla marketing. Companies do this all of the time on reddit. If you're saying "ring would be my first thought too" then you're just easy to market too. Ring isn't the best, it's just the loudest.
Normal people can, of course, become advertising agents unknowingly, but they were trained beforehand by believing the engagement was real, made by people "just like us". Look at this picture of a sunset I took! I have the new Samsung, by the way.
I don't think so, but have you heard about the latest features in the X6 model Ring™ camera? It looks cray, yo. Lit 🌡️🔥💧💨😰🍹🥳🍹💅🍹🕺🍹🫠🍹🚗🚓🏃♀️💨🔫🎯❤️🩹🧑🦽🕳️🫥🤑🍹🩼🍹🕺🍹🙊🍹🤮😰🌡️❤️🔥🧠🥦🏥🛌💀⚰️🍹👻 Fam!!
Could be guerrilla marketing or could just be that most people associate doorbell camera with Ring.
This one is literally someone advertising on it. It's weird
It’s this one that raised alarm bells for me, that in combination with every other comment naming the brand https://www.reddit.com/r/Apartmentliving/comments/1piqv81/comment/nt88g9j/?context=3
Oh ya I saw that one too. Plus the one right after that literally links to an Amazon page, it's ridiculous. One of the comment families is a battle between Ring and Blink too
Im pretty sure the Amazon links in thag thread are affiliate links aswell.
i’m a dogsitter and one of the neighborhoods a client lives in has essentially a doorbell camera at every single house. it is so dystopian walking around it: treeless new townhouse development, every single door has a camera. signs advertising for neighbors to join a neighborhood fb group so it’s not like they’re not in communication. i will say most of the doorbells were ring brand, my client had one too. one brand announces to you that’s it’s recording after making this horrible whistle sound. loved that pup but the feeling of walking around there was unsettling
In my opinion a doorbell camera would be one of the first lines of defense. Not a bot.
I would be less weirded out if more of the comments were like get a doorbell camera like brand or [competing brand], or security cameras. the fact that almost of them named the same brand is weird, even weirder since Redditors are usually very suspicious of subscription services that share your data like Ring…so to be effusive in praise and telling people that they need this? very odd.