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Cameras don't stop anyone, but I still have few recording my yard. It's more of a hobby and I'm planning to integrate person detection on those to home automation but for me it's also a small piece of peace on my mind. Should someone steal my car trailer (or a car) I'd have some footage for the police and insurance. Also a while ago we had a decent storm around and we weren't at home so it was nice that I could check for possible damages remotely.
But absolute majority of time I don't even think about them. I don't have any notifications enabled, I'm not interested about neighbors cat running across our yard or getting interruptions every time someone on the family comes or goes. And while Frigate has some AI things built in, the whole thing runs locally. There's no way I'd install nest or some other camera which sends/stores data to anywhere which isn't 100% in my control.