Eufycam watermark

[yamyam]

And on top of that I see that users are frustrated to know eufy is wasting their valuable time to work on these non value added features despite they are long due on much more important and critical issues raised by users, yes they are critical from a security camera point of view.

@AnkerOfficial and other mods, please take it to their attention with a sense of urgency.

Word!

[Schoey]

They need to make this optional. Utterly ridiculous.

[yamyam]

They need to make this optional.

Of course they need to. But they could have prevent dropping a brick again and trigger a shitstorm by THINKING about and before releasing something to the public and uploading (forcing) such a bad joke to thousands of “in-serious-use” cams!

I hope the employee “who did that crime” (der das verbrochen hat - don’t know how to translate correctly into english) will get canceled one day of his vacation as punishment.

[ErikNL]

They should have a beta program…or an early build version for changes like this. So they can ask the community about their opinions.

[jmz50607]

Mark me down as not a fan of the watermark. It should be optional, anything that reduces viewable video is not a good idea. I do not like it at all. Please make it removable.

[TheDude]

Let’s vote

• Keep watermark
• Remove watermark
• Optional watermark

[Haloweenhamster]

Personally I’d say remove it for now as it can be done straight away & then make it optional when updating the app & cam for a useful feature

[yamyam]

Good idea … I could have thought of a poll myself.

[TheDude]

Should have could have would have didn’t😉

[yamyam]

yeah … blame me bro … blame me!

[Chiquinho]

Sharing is dangerous.

Husbands, wives, bank accounts… and videos.

[ErikNL]

Still no official reply… This saddens me.

[Haloweenhamster]

Unlikely to be one at the weekend
Maybe tomorrow, think all of the Anker staff are China based so will be back at work in about 3 hours

[The_Bearded_Tech_Guy]

I asked support (working on another issue with the doorbell) and they indicated there is no way to remove it (from doorbell or cameras).

With nest, I provided my serial numbers for all 5 of my cameras and doorbell and they had no problem removing it.

I understand why they want it, for free advertisement, but having no way to remove it even via support is a bit greedy.

[Haloweenhamster]

That surprises me, one person has said to keep the water mark, unfortunately I can’t see who’s voted to know who likes it

[Josh_S0]

Crowd funder, early user. Not a fan of the forced watermark, im ok with it enabled by default.
for security reasons, if i need to send content to lawyers. Protecting what device did the recording is sometimes needed.

[yamyam]

True. @TheDude should have made a public vote, so we could see who voted and what.
Probably a anker employee who voted to keep the (foreced) watermark

Not a fan of the forced watermark, im ok with it enabled by default.
for security reasons, if i need to send content to lawyers.

Sorry, but a lawyer or judge don’t care at all what brand recorded a security/surveillance video!
The only thing what would be interesting for them is WHAT TO SEE at the footage (robbery, murder, damage to property, car accident, brawls, or others) and a serious and correct TIMESTAMP. That’s it.

The (currently still forced) WATERMARK is just for marketing purpose!
And this is general senseless aynway, as most videos will never reach public or be viewed by anyone else than the owner of the cam.

So no reason at all to loose reputation and disgruntle its own fans and customers with a forced watermark.

[Ice1]

Still no official reply… This saddens me.

Don’t get surprised to see no response on this.
give a week and we all forget about it and live with it.

[yamyam]

give a week and we all forget about it and live with it.

That’s their plan probably … to hush up … keep it quit … don’t know how to translate “totschweigen” correctly. Hope you know what i mean

and live with it.

I doubt we can, will or should live with it! Neither forget about the Watermark-Gate until this useless and annoying watermark gone lost or made optional!

I just noticed this car beeing involved in a car accident some hours ago and i can not read the number plate because of this absolutely unnecessary watermark which is just wasting pixels!

The picture/video quality isn’t the best anyway (outdated video codec) but by zooming in at maximum, i could normaly and without the watermark, i could read it (done plenty times before in similar cases).

So NO! Do never forget about this. make it optional or delete it in general, like before, and everything will be ok. If they really have nightmares and can’t live wiothout their overall loved watermark and really wanna force us to have it, then they should implement it only at the time a video is saved (downloaded) and then let us choose the position of it before downloading, so it won’t hide important informations or pixels like above!

And to be honest:
NO ONE NEEDS this watermark at all! It is useless. It will never ever bring anyone to buy this product. Not the judge, not the police officer who is watching the evidence video, not the prosecuting attorney, noone!

What DOES bring people to buy a product is positive reputation and word of mouth!
Thats the reason why my best friend and my neighbour in the meanwhile bought eufy cams, because i recommended it to them. But with this watermark and current demotivating and missing updates, fixes and improvements, i currently would not recomment it to anyone in my family or circle of friends.

This should give eufy to think about it.

POSITIVE reputation and WORD OF MOUTH, as same as POSITIVE internet talk, reviews and tests, is much more worth and selling this product than this unwanted and useless watermark.

Sorry, repeating, but i am pissed regarding this topic … an i am not the only one.

[ndalby]

Based on the pixelation over the image, watermark or not I doubt you would have had a clear shot of the license plate