Apologizes for not sharing my feedback in the other thread regarding this topic. As I was researching the binding process to become up to date on where DJI stands regarding the new policy and after spending countless hours binding and rebinding using several of my drones, remote controllers, and a couple of made-up DJI accounts (representing the new legit user/buyer and the dishonest new user or seller), I found too many inconsistencies and different behaviors and confusing pieces of the process which prevented me from creating a coherent post.
Different drones and different controllers (and
goggles) did different things at different times. For example, on my RC Pro, I never see stars in my email account. Perhaps this is a recent change but my email account is in plain view for all to see and never protected (under any circumstances) which means you don't have to communicate with DJI, you can simply see my email and send your own message directly to me.
I tried different networks from cellular to home wifi to a public wifi and even no network trying to recreate login/logout issues but couldn't nail it down so it appears DJI is pretty random about this. I've only had a couple times auto-login and the last time wasn't this year or last year so it's been awhile. Auto logout is where you get screwed and because it's not immediate, you don't know when you are in trouble until you are.
Also I am never asked for password. When unbinding, just click the buttons and you are done. If a thief broke into my car overnight and stole my drone and the [binded] remote controller all they have to do it power up the drone and the RC, connect, unbind the controller and substitute their own DJI account since nothing is stopping them. That's hardly theft deterrence. However, it is true if your drone flew away and someone found it (obviously not the RC) then they won't be able to use it with another controller if the drone is bound. Interestingly, DJI has two bound conditions: One for premium services (such as care refresh) which you can seem to bind to expired Care and one for your DJI login; they call it binding as well. When you use your DJI account to log in with the drone, that's one step and you need to take a second step and bind that DJI account to your DJI account so it's like locking down the account to that drone and establishing some sort of ownership. But as I mentioned, anyone can pickup your equipment and as long as you are logged in (which I don't know too many flyer who log out once they are done flying), the thief can easily hit the buttons (without a password) and unbind and log off. By the time you wake up in the morning, your missing equipment is rebound elsewhere and you're locked out, just like the iPhone in the old days before Apple installed additional sub locks and timers giving the victim a decent chance against a quick thief who grabs your equipment and quickly changes all settings and you lose everything before you can respond. I couldn't find a way to log out of my equipment remotely or to force it to log out when re-connected to [pubic] wifi which is what the thief needs in order to rebind the equipment to his new DJI account but I'm sure DJI can do it. Again, by the time you realize this, you've lost everything. I understand why DJI is asking everyone to bind, regardless but I don't understand how the public is support to know if a serial number is unbound since there is no DJI.com resource that clearly notes the current status; I checked during all this testing. If the potential cannot reach out to DJI to confirm, they'll just have to take the word of the seller; good luck with that.
Anyway, once I collected too many screenshots and too many scenarios and TMI on the process, I quickly realized no regular user is ever going to know or learn all of this and only us experts (or the victims who get burned once) will figure it out and regardless of what I post, no one is going to change their mind and DJI is certainly not going to change their process. We have bigger issues to deal with, never mind the binding, you first have to be able to buy a DJI drone in the US or activate a fresh Care account before anyone is worried about binding. Just like what's going on in America, I resorted to FAFO on the binding process, live and you learn, sucks for the victims, and nobody cares until it happens to you and so I scraped those draft posts; that's the update.