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Ring’s Neighborhood App Is Worse Than Useless

Ring doorbells see all, but know nothing

Omar L. Gallaga
Debugger
Published in
5 min readApr 2, 2021

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Photo Illustration: Save As/Medium; Source: Ring

Do you remember, way back about six or seven years ago, when Ring just made video doorbells?

This was after the small startup company competed on Shark Tank but before it was swallowed up Amazon, which made the now-ubiquitous doorbells the center of a…

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Omar L. Gallaga
Debugger

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