They heavily push their cloud management, apparently tried doing required cloud logins for their UDMs (implied in another comment), and 100% require you to purchase their hardware or use their cloud for Unifi Protect. In the past, one could run the Protect software on their own machine.
Ubiquiti is the least smelly networking solution in a room full of really smelly options. They are not consumer friendly like they used to be.
> Ubiquiti is the least smelly networking solution in a room full of really smelly options.
Agreed entirely. Unfortunately this is a market that's not well served because there's a lot more money to be made just shoveling consumer garbage out or putting small businesses over the barrel with subscriptions rather than offering a proper prosumer product.
Ubiquiti is the least smelly networking solution in a room full of really smelly options. They are not consumer friendly like they used to be.