Amazon has acquired eero

Iceman 21  I just invested $600. Can’t say I would have done that if knew Amazon was buying them. Guess I’m now in wait and see mode. 

davebarnes Skeeter  eero already uses AWS for some of its services. I too enjoy the privacy aspects eero, and for now i am holding strong with eero. The alternatives - Google, Netgear, Linksys etc - offer nothing for privacy. In fact, they need to be avoided for security, privacy and bad software design. Eero has shown its strength throughout. 

cotedan87 Agreed and good to know they are already on AWS in some capacity.  The problem as I see it beyond privacy is if you look at the alternatives they just are not as good. I've been an eero member since they first launched and have left them twice for better tech but just did not find it and ultimately the stuff ended up on CL, ebay or Facebook for sale.  Google's tech was fine when compared to gen 1 of eero but gen 2 is on an entirely different level with performance. Netgear's Obi did not perform well, left empty spots in my house, their app just sucked, and these things are unsightly in the house. I have really nothing to comment on about Linksys except I moved away when mesh started.

While I appreciate and share the concern over privacy, there is a reason we are all here on the eero forums and that is we choose eero because we feel it's a great product and offering. I would let the dust settle, see what communication comes out either from eero or Amazon and get a sense of where the product will go.  As I mentioned before Amazon has a history and reputation of innovation on acquisitions not shuttering.  From my perspective this was a strategic buy from Bezo's the future is going to be bright.   (A check was put in the mail last week from him...LOL 😂) 

Mgreer316 I think this reflects fatigue that people have with mega-corporations having access to so much data about our daily lives. I have explicitly avoided Google Wi-Fi due to this and am considering jumping ship from Eero also after this announcement. I'm not going to unplug everything today; however, Eero team will need to be super clear as to what this means regarding telemetry and data accumulation. There are many many people that are stating they plan to jump ship on Eero subreddit, for example.

It remains to be seen how this pans out; I am definitely ready to leave.

Mgreer316  I'm amused by you comment. I'm not making any changes just yet because I could be, and hope I am, wrong and Amazon turn out to be a privacy white knight.   But I'm not hopeful.  I'll post a link to the expected upcoming change in privacy policy and user agreement for us to discuss when that happens so we can discuss how bad it could be for eero owners. 

It's hard to beat today's eero privacy policy which states, to quote Lauren Goode of Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-eero-smart-home/

Eero privacy policy currently states that the company collects data about users’ Eero networks to optimize performance, that it may share anonymized data, and that it may share personal data with third-party service providers. However, it also states, “We don’t ever track the websites you visit or collect the content of your network traffic. We don’t sell our customer data, and we don’t sell ads based on this data.” 

I don't think we will be waiting long for a change. I hope I am wrong, I really do, but I will be shocked if that last two sentences about "We don't..."'s survive in any shape or form. 

I'm amazed more people are not appalled by this transaction.  But then most people don't give a hoot about personal information privacy.  Maybe that's even the majority of people and maybe you're in the camp of "I don't care if they know" that I hear a lot.  But some of us care a lot.

Byter I'm glad I can amuse you even though I don't see what was amusing. I'm leery about Amazon's intentions, but I also want to see valuable strides made in the eero software that has yet to come about. So I'm in observation mode. 

Byter This is a valid point but if you and the others that are ready to jump ship want a possible glimpse into the future I would check out the privacy polices for the following:  Amazon Dot or Show, Ring and see what they say.  I would think this might give us a good idea as to what Amazon might do with the privacy concerning eero. 

rcooked Or if they're just more active in development in general.

Mr. J I would be leery as well if eero was doing everything I needed. Thankfully, the hardware as performed flawlessly and consistently for me from the momebi bought it 9 months ago. But the software is missing important capabilities that haven't been addressed for years. I can only believe it was due to a lack of resources. If so, hopefully this purchase will eliminate any obstacles in further software development. 

epo  agreed and had no clue that they’re is such a mess.  Too bad and never envisioned that they were fire sale material.   

Iceman 21 Maybe. We'll have to wait and see. In the meantime, I'm examining alternatives. If things get disagreeable, then I'll leap. 

Iceman 21 I love my eeros and honestly don’t see Amazon doing that especially if you look how they handled Ring.  If anything they May rebrand the device but certainly will see them enhance the software.  If you look at the WiFi tech over the past year it’s gotten pretty stagnant waiting for the next WiFi standard to take off so perhaps we won’t really see anything like eero 3 until late this year or even 2020. Just my $.02