Review Geek (Whomever that is) No Longer Recommends Wyze

[carverofchoice]

This was my initial reaction at reading this article several days ago:

@carverofchoice

I am laughing at reviewgeek though…their article says they can’t recommend Wyze or Eufy anymore…even though the Wyze issue came out MANY MONTHS ago…so I ran a site search on them with the word Wyze and saw they’ve made several recommendations for Wyze products since then, including the V3Pro and the Mesh Routers and they appear to be using an affiliate/referral link in their articles so they can get paid for the referrals that they recommended to buy those Wyze products.
So…make of all that what you will, but I call total BS on their claim about not recommending new Wyze products. They’ve clearly been doing that for months since Wyze’s issue came out. It doesn’t make sense to suddenly punish Wyze for something Eufy just did, and they didn’t really care when Wyze’s issue actually did come out because they’ve been recommending Wyze products since then. So I’m just saying, something doesn’t smell right with their claim in this article. I think I’m getting a hint of sensationalism for ratings rather than honesty.

And Customer concluded the same thing:

@Customer

I came to the exact same conclusion about “Review Geek” simply by glancing at the inline summary in the original post above, immediately resolving never to pay it any heed in the future (and I’d never heard of it before). When a web site shows you what they are, believe them.

I still think the Wyze issue is mostly a non-issue…in fact it is actually one of the most highly requested features we’ve all been begging for them to do on purpose for years (allow us to access videos on the SD card through our own secure local network). So I was more disappointed that they fixed it than finding out it existed. It’s not like a random stranger hacker in another country was able to access my video, only someone I allowed on my secure WiFi (myself) and only through complicated methods. so it’s was a non-issue IMO. Obviously reviewgeek felt the same because they kept recommending every Wyze product all year long. Now they’re going to punish Wyze for something Eufy did? Make that make sense…if anything it makes them look like they’re using click bait tactics for ratings from people who will just believe the headlines without knowing the context. I’m just saying that their timeline and actions in articles all year just don’t appear to match up with what they are saying in this article and it affects their credibility.