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Deals: Anker Discounting USB-C Accessories, Bluetooth Speakers, and More on Amazon

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Anker today has a collection of discounts on Amazon, offering savings on cables, USB-C accessories, wall chargers, Bluetooth speakers, and more. Many of these discounts will only run this week, so if you're interested be sure to place an order soon.

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Most of these deals require you to clip an on-page coupon in order to see the discounts at the checkout screen. There are multiple types of products on sale this time around, including Anker's SmartTrack line of Bluetooth trackers and the Eufy Security Smart Package Box at $199.99, down from $399.99.

Cables and Wall Chargers

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Hubs

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Portable Battery

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Bluetooth Speakers

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Miscellaneous

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Head to our full Deals Roundup to get caught up with all of the latest deals and discounts that we've been tracking over the past week.

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I just plain didn't have good luck with Eufy stuff, and that was before their privacy issues. Cables and charging banks I'd still buy from Anker, but, yeah, that's about it.

And Anker is like buying things at JCPenney or Kohl's, if you're paying full price, you're a sucker. MR might as well just announce when Anker isn't having a sale.
 
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DJC631 said:
They made some very high quality tech, but after Eufy there's no way you can 100% trust any of their products. Shame, too, they made some great charging tech.
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Yeah, but the level of trust needed depends a lot on usage and other things. I need to trust my bank more than my charger company :).

I also feel, and this is probably unpopular, that the Eufy case was somewhat blown out of proportion.
 
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I have a number of Anker products, and so far (knock on wood), they've all worked well and they've all been reliable.

That said, I recently bought the UGREEN 100W USB C Charger, and this is an amazing USB-C power adapter/charger for the price! It retails for $74.99, but as an Amazon Prime member, I was able to get it for $51.99, which is what it costs now on Amazon. Actually, with the current 5% off coupon on Amazon, it's down to $49.39. It has 3 USB-C ports and 1 USB-A port, so I can charge my MacBook Air, iPad Pro, iPhone 12 Pro, and Apple Watch all at the same time off of one adapter. Not bad!
 
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Didn’t know the Eufy Smart Track AirTag substitute existed. For $15 after tax, ordered one. Good deal. First decent deal I’ve seen on MR in years.

Watched and read a few reviews before purchase.

Pros: cheap, works on findmy network, pings off Apple devices, replaceable CR2032, has keyring hole. Cheap. Also it’s cheap.

Cons: no precise location ability, no totally waterproof case options, Eufy company is full of lying bastards who could care less about your privacy, unknown real world battery life.

It’s perfect for a use case I have for a particular object, so I’ll give it a try.
 
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Dangit.

I said I would actually get past one anker sale without buying something.

FAIL.


Girlfriend picked up five chargers and cables for her side of the family too.

I should just buy some of their stock.
 
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DJC631 said:
They made some very high quality tech, but after Eufy there's no way you can 100% trust any of their products. Shame, too, they made some great charging tech.
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I'm very privacy focused and a smart home enthusiast. I settled on the newest Eufy 3 system. The cloud functionality people weren't informed of involved thumbnails sent to a server to send notifications with the thumbnail to users that weren't on their local wifi. The feature set and lack of cloud subscription requirement sold me.

With smart home tech there's always a compromise unfortunately.
Homekit- missing basic features for some devices, can be buggy with updates, not as broad of a range of devices (which may or may not change with matter)
Google/ Nest- it's google, they love your data. Terrible smart home app. Nest products are overpriced for their feature set. Google sends video to police without your consent in some situations
Amazon/Ring- Also sends video to police without consent. Huge privacy issues with Ring working with police. Amazon absolutely wants your data to sell more products.
Chinese Products- difficult to trust support/ privacy, because afterall, it's China and the CCP we're talking about.

I could go on...
 
cheetabrad said:
I'm very privacy focused and a smart home enthusiast. I settled on the newest Eufy 3 system. The cloud functionality people weren't informed of involved thumbnails sent to a server to send notifications with the thumbnail to users that weren't on their local wifi. The feature set and lack of cloud subscription requirement sold me.

With smart home tech there's always a compromise unfortunately.
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cheetabrad said:
Chinese Products- difficult to trust support/ privacy, because afterall, it's China and the CCP we're talking about.

I could go on...
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You know Eufy is Chinese, right?
 
cheetabrad said:
absolutely, and it cause a lot of skepticism for me. fortunately i have PiHole running on my network to monitor traffic and block connections. So far so good.
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For me, the last place I want Chinese companies and/or known leaking of customer data is cameras.
 
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For me, the last place I want Chinese companies and/or known leaking of customer data is cameras.
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I understand that for sure. Unfortunately how can you really ever assume China has no access when they make all hardware. It just depends how far you want to take things. One thing that concerns me in general is how essentially one company in China manufactures all security cameras.

www.technologyreview.com

The world’s biggest surveillance company you’ve never heard of

Hikvision could be sanctioned for aiding the Chinese government’s human rights violations in Xinjiang. Here’s everything you need to know.
www.technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com
 
cheetabrad said:
I understand that for sure. Unfortunately how can you really ever assume China has no access when they make all hardware. It just depends how far you want to take things. One thing that concerns me in general is how essentially one company in China manufactures all security cameras.

www.technologyreview.com

The world’s biggest surveillance company you’ve never heard of

Hikvision could be sanctioned for aiding the Chinese government’s human rights violations in Xinjiang. Here’s everything you need to know.
www.technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com
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I go for a 2 stage approach:
1) don't use the company that has been openly outed as providing camera access (Eufy).
2) put all my cameras on an isolated VLAN that has no internet or network access, and only allow them to see the Apple TV-- which handles all the internet needs.
 
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