They’re reputable, but focus in cloud based management solutions, so your data will 100% be taken/used if you choose to use those services.

a few years ago (actually, probably 5+, how the time flies) they made some kind of data collection mandatory, but at first totally hidden, afaik not even a changelog entry. then people found out and went angry, so unifi made an opt-out setting for it

I don’t know what happened after that, but to me they have shown it clearly that they are driven by US mentality (not because of current politics, but generally)

They’re reputable. Don’t give anyone any data you aren’t comfortable being leaked. Eventually it all comes out.

The only complaint people have is that the devices are expensive and phone home which they should. You’re buying a piece of internet facing technology, you should want it to check in and make sure it’s up to date etc.

Seriously, make sure you turn on automatic updates and change default passwords.

Openwrt made a router and the wrt2 is supposed to be made later this year i think.

Unifi is great ive and pretty reputable you can do local account etc but if you want a cheaper option and the potential for more privacy id reccomend using openwrt on one of the supported devices you can find info about it here https://openwrt.org/

I’m not sure what all data they get if you self-host their controller. I’m pretty sure you don’t have to make a unifi cloud account at setup, you can make a local one. You can turn off the collection of diagnostic data at setup. Now that’s not to say they don’t send it anyway,