Do doorbells bother you?

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Am I alone with feeling like I'm constantly being recorded by neighbours, walking down the road or just walking out my front door?
My neighbour has even learnt something that I can only guess they heard from their doorbell when I was outside speaking to someone the other day.

I understand the need for CCTV and weirdly don't feel anything towards this and I appreciate security, deliveries etc. they are fantastic inventions.
It's the audio recording that makes me uncomfortable, like you can never have privacy to make an important phone call or have a serious conversation without someone possibly recording you.
I am genuinely happy to be told I'm unreasonable to be honest, I just feel a loss of privacy.

I’m irritated that so many people don’t bother to set their doorbell up properly so that it only triggers and records their property. It’s incredibly easy to do with most of them.

They’re a fantastic invention, but nobody should be recording their neighbours in their own gardens or on their own doorsteps unless it’s so loud it’s being recorded for a noise complaint.

I have never thought of it tbh, my neighbour has a doorbell for her elderly parent so I am assuming she can see who is coming to the door or can tell delivery drivers to just leave the package, i only noticed it because I was posting a letter that had been posted to me by mistake, I don't think they are particularly intrusive.

💯 Absolutely!

All my neighbours have Ring cameras. Feels oppressive. And all CCTV now has audio, so it's just relentless. Add Meta Glasses and Dash Cams and phones. There was even a post in here a few weeks back about someone who's friend recorded every conversation on their phone so they could listen back to them later.

I don’t care but I have 24/7 recording on my house. I live in a rough area though. We are always recorded outside anyway

I wouldn't take an important phone call in the street so nobody is going to overhear, i honestly think some people have lost their self awareness and say whatever they want on their phones outside, i think that is more of an issue than your personal call being recorded on a ring door bell.

I deliver leaflets for our community events I like to put my headphones on and have a little sing and dance up the paths. Sometimes I wave at the Ring Doorbell think are the only people on our street without one. Ironically, when anyone is actually burgled / has their car nicked and asks if there is anything on anyone's survelliance never seems to be caught so no idea what the point of it all is!!!

Ours only captures up to the end of our driveway, and is off for 30mins around school end time due to thenumber of teens/preteens passing our house then.

@Lomonald I can agree with you that taking private calls outside does open you up to the risk of being overheard, and that a lot of people are loud on the phone or use speakerphone which is annoying to everyone else - so I do see your point and you are reasonable to say so.
However there are several reasons one may take a phone call outside rather than inside, and as long as your quiet and respectful of property boundaries I don't think it's unreasonable to expect not to have the whole one sided conversation recorded then possibly listened to.
I live in an area with really bad phone signal, my garden is the best spot.

So we have a ring- but only because I want to know if hubby is in or out when he rings me and doesn't sound right- was it a seizure, is he at home (no I am not tracking exactly where he is as he doesn't want that....)

I have one and for my own sanity I've set it up so it's not constantly alerting when someone walks part the drive. It's zoned to only alert when people come onto the drive .

I never really think about the reach of other people's doorbells or cameras.

I'd be annoyed if one was overlooking my back garden.

I did catch neighbourhood burglars on my Ring. It records everyone passing in the street and I got them walking past.

The police have knocked at my house a few times asking to check footage for a missing teen / someone dodgy. Always happy to go through the footage.

My neighbour complained to me that my hens moving around the garden kept setting off his ring doorbell.

I'm not even sure a hen can set off a ring doorbell. I have an old fashioned door knocker which the hens ignore.

Even the Famous Five worried about this. Julian travels into town to telephone his uncle, as the rural telephone box near them is too easily overheard. And “come and sit in this sheltered bay, where nobody can hear us”.

I’m not so worried about private doorbells. I do worry about the possibility of the government commandeering them to check for people breaking lockdown.

Hate it. We live in a mid terrace, none of the houses round us have more than a 1m front yard. Can you really setup the cameras to avoid recording the street in these circumstances? I expect not. I really hate it. Especially when people then put screenshos on Facebook suggesting nefarious behaviour.

I don’t think this is an issue for most people.

If your neighbour is nosey enough to listen to your private conversations through their door bell they’d probably be just a nosey without one.

It shouldn't be recording anyone on your street, only own property unless you have signs up. It's not legal.
Not that anyone cares, everyone is quite happy to be recorded everywhere they go apparently.
I hate them with a passion.. I can see from all my neighbours footage they post online that they are clearly covering other people's property and public spaces. They're a violation to other people's right to privacy. I should be able to stop to talk to someone in the street without our conversation being recorded or go for my morning walk without neighbours clocking my every move.
I've seen a lot of issues on here with women with creepy male neighbours using them to their advantage too.
Did I say I hated them?

You can. Most people don’t bother their arse to do it, but you can

We have a ring doorbell but don't record and you can have it set so it only alerts when someone actually rings the bell. People who have it ding every time someone walks past must be so nosey and surely it gets annoying?!

I am not being obtuse or sarcastic, but have you considered a landline, you seem quite stressed that your conversations are going to be picked up and kept, that is no way to live.

My biggest annoyance is people who let their ring doorbell run out of battery so you end up having to hammer on their door to get their attention.

I have a Ring doorbell on the front door and a back door cam out back. It’s part of home security for me. To be honest, living in a terraced row I put up with a lot of noise, etc so really don’t care what my neighbours think about my cameras or if they inadvertently get filmed whilst stepping on my path while they cut their grass.

No, it doesn't bother me.

My neighbour has one, it's the loudest, most irritating noise and as they seem to order a million things, it goes off at all hours. If I visit someone and they have one, I never use the doorbell, I knock - I don't want my big face popping up on someone's phone.

The way our homes are set up you can’t have a ring door bell without recording the neighbours front door. We don’t have one and neither does our neighbour. If they did get one I wouldn’t be impressed and would tell them I was unhappy with it.

I think they’re a huge invasion of privacy, and find it really annoying when you’re with people who get distracted and/or jump out of their skin each time their phone makes the ring doorbell sound.

I gave up delivering our village newsletter because I hated being recorded at pretty much every address I visited.