And what about the UNWANTED ads throught push up notifications? It is impossible to disable them or you will disable the security alert too ( general option in the notification list). I will never buy your unuseful CLOUD SERVICE so stop sending ads about that. I use the Sd card!
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Yi is now very bad. force clients to accept unnecessary service and advertisement. very bad company
will talk mr poor experience of YI to every person who is going to purchase security camera.
It is a long time clients complained but Yi never improved only get worse. broadcast advs and clients don’t have control
How stupid company like this!
This is a very stupid decision of Yi to put ads in the app. I have 6 Yi cameras and I will stop buying any more Yi cameras and start replacing all my Yi cameras.
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Hi There,
When I bought the cams there was no information about requirements for subscriptions to use the product and I am pretty sure that in combination with the ads is not legal in EU. So if you plan to exist as a company with good security and a reliable app, remove the ads and start carry for app and cam security. If not all cams would be flashed with custom firmware and you will lose all.
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As quickly as the ads appeared, they disappeared. Kami/Yi has apparently been listening to their customers, to their credit. I’ll hold off on my decision to get rid of the cameras. But please don’t do this again!
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I am still getting pop-up adverts with annoying music for ‘Temu’ on opening the app today…
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I’ve also just had the advert and am fed up with them. I use SD cards and don’t need a subscription. I’ve got 8 cameras and will be replacing them all. I will also post about these ads on other forums and hopefully if there is a drop in sales of these cameras, then it will force them to rethink their policy. I would never had bought these cameras had I known that ads were intended for the future.
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I also have many cameras and find this beyond annoying-
Picture this:
It’s 2 am
I hear a camera alarm in the driveway
I tap on camera …………
An ad WITH SOUND COMES ON
And you had to wait 10 seconds for the ad to end before you can look at the camera to see what the alarm is for
SO
I HAVE WRITTEN THIS REVIEW FOR EVERY CAMERA I HAVE BOUGHT TO WARN THE CONSUMER-
GO DO THE SAME !!!
Write this in a review
I will never buy again
It is a downright sleazy thing to do after you’ve bought the camera or 6 of them like me
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Is this a joke? Post an advt in response to complaint about showing ads!
Don’t need your apology, stop these aggressive ads.
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They couldn’t care less, they want eyeballs to make money, if you don’t like the ads just don’t buy our camera is their arrogant attitude.
They have not disappeared.
That is strange. I do no longer get them when I start the app on my iPhone. It just happened to get an update of the Kami app today and I’m still not getting any ads. Hopefully it stays this way, otherwise the camera will go in the waste bin!
Time for a camera change. I don’t need to watch an advert just to check a notification which could be time-critical on a system I have paid for!!!
Any ideas on which camera system is the way to go?
I fully agree. I hope their greed ends the future of the company. They are asking for money for a product that I have already paid for once. It works on my network, with my router and my electricity.
I recently bought a new camera and never thought I would ever buy a kami again and I encourage my friends and relatives to do the same. BTW the camera I bought is quasi-family because it’s a Xiaomi that can save to my own NAS, no my data circulating on foreign servers.
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OH piss off with the constant nonsense about great subscription offers…
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Oops! They did it again!
Unfortunately I have to revise my previous post. Unfortunately, since the last update of the Kami app on my iPhone, the ads are back. Before the update I could just view the images from the camera, but since today I have to tap away an annoying advertisement with a loud sound! So the discretion is completely gone now. So Kami hasn’t listened to their customers anyway. The camera initially worked without advertising due to probably a problem with adding the advertising due to region restrictions, but they have now apparently addressed that problem. If this annoying advertisement continues for the next month, the camera will be thrown in the dumpster for good and I will never buy a Kami product again.
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It’s a bizzare business model. Quite how they’ve managed to get any GENUINE positive reviews all for the app or on Amazon is strange.
They made a brilliant product. The 720p then the 1080p cams were great. pan Tilt cam fantastic. Then destroyed everything they had built including all customer loyalty with a series of reckless decisions.
It’s impossible to rely on Yi or Kami products for security at this point.
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