You have valid concerns. It’s an unfortunate shifting landscape. There’s no opt-out for collection devices you don’t own (it’s hard enough already for the ones you do own) so consent has disintegrated completely. The reflexive reaction is threat model focus and adjusting your expectations of privacy. But what’s becoming more complex at that approach is how widely and with whom the data is being shared. If the doorbell server owner was using it to improve the doorbell product only, it wouldn’t be so concerning. But when it becomes a data harvesting tool for law enforcement or any other company willing to pay, relatively trivial data collection becomes much more imposing since it can be combined with other sources.

I am not at shirt-over-my-face level yet, but I would feel much more comfortable with a face mask any time I approach an unknown camera, which is increasingly common these days.

I’m trying to do something similar. I am using Wireguard to VPN to my home network. Then I want to route all home internet traffic through one Mullvad instance. How would I do this? So far all my attempts have failed, I was trying to set routes but I don’t have an expert understanding of both VPN settings in regards to Linux networking.