That's a good point, I'll be sure to leave my password instead of the official account authorization like you do with Google or Apple or anyone else who knows how to secure the most important information of your life. Gosh, DJI is acting like they are protecting Ft Knox. If you have a huge drone collection or you have expensive drones or a commercial operation, you do what it takes. OTOH, the remaining 90% or 9 million pilots with just one drone aren't going to do this.
What's really going to be sad is if DJI does in fact change this or stop doing it and we're left with a million orphans that could be problem childs but it's basically impossible to distinguish years from now. It's not a good strategy in the long run.
BTW, I failed to mentioned....it might not be DJI fault completely, maybe they know something we don't know. Perhaps unbinding a drone remotely is a flawed process that inadvertently opens up a security loophole in the software that could lead to exposing the previous owners details. As a result, DJI ultimately decided it was too risky. Obviously they're not going to tell everybody about it but I can see where they could get together and decide better to lock out everybody then put us on the hook.
Anyway, when I mean NEWbie people to the community, you have a lot of first time drone flyers who want to get into drones and traditionally you buy your first drone from Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart....the drone shop, the US drone page. Not usually the scam sights like eBay and FB. Not usually ordering a drone from China, Korea, or Japan. Failure to fully understand the traps usually don't befall the new drone owner who choses the American path and those paths are traditional for a reason. Unfortunately there's really nowhere else to buy a drone these days so it has become very risky for newbie because the knowledge is not easily gained on how to protect yourself. Imagine if all the car dealership disappeared and so did the sellers like CarMax and the only place left to buy a car was used cars only and it was eBay and a parking lot downtown. Would you not be surprised how many people, regardless of the unlimited resources that were available to them, would be scammed with blown engines, fake VINS, rolled back odometers, bald tires, and stolen vehicles? It's well known that you do the deep dive on cars or take the risks but honestly, you shouldn't have to take a drone to a drone specialist to get it checked out before you buy it. An inexpensive drone is not an expensive car so the expectations can never be the same.
Don't forget, DJI drone sales in America is not a thing ever since they bailed, there is no official DJI page to support sales and nobody knows what a good deal looks like or who offers a good deal or who's legit. The market is semi-abandoned of any real leadership and there's no semblance of a larger secure well-run drone community, it's wide open which is why the scammers have surfaced and why every day there are people asking if this or that is a good deal. Two years ago, you didn't have to ask like that you just buy on Amazon and let them protect you or you hold your nose and buy at Best Buy because you trust them.
Now the criminals are here for a reason and they are starting to adapt and blend in, it's going to get worse before it gets better as long as DJI remains absent. How many people right here in this forum are still trying to get comfortable with eBay and with tariffs on top of that....it's not easy; there are enemies all around us on all sides. I wouldn't be surprised if people just passed and wait to buy another day. If international scammers emerged from Asia on eBay in great numbers, we're screwed.
