Amazon bought Ring in 2018 and the enshitification has been coming for years, just another reason to ditch all Ring cameras.

In that case, I'd create a second wireless network that doesn't have internet access to keep it all in-house under my control.

If you use ‘em end-to-end encrypt the storage and transmission. You lose some features but at least it makes hijacking them more inconvenient.

Yeah, my house has Wyze cams, and it very much wasn't up to me, and I was still pissed about it before I saw this article. Yes, I'm pissed'er now.