Statement on Modifications Made to RingConn Gen 2 Coverage

On the 7th of November, 2024 (AEDT), I published changes via YouTube’s editor to the video “the smart ring you should actually buy - RingConn Gen 2 Review”.

These changes removed a portion of the review discussing the menstrual health tracking features of the subject, which included segments on how trans individuals, particularly males who were assigned female at birth, may not be able to use their preferred identity within the RingConn app as the system requires a user account to be set as Female to access these features. I also mentioned that non-binary and genderfluid individuals would not have access to the features if their account was set to Prefer not to say.

Also cut after publish was a segment on how individuals in the United States may prefer to use on-device or cloud-based end to end encrypted tools, such as Drip or Apple Health, due to ongoing political unrest surrounding the topic of abortions and general women’s healthcare within the country. RingConn’s cloud-based platform which allows any level of employee access to data (see their privacy policy) could pose potential issues for users within the country, particularly in red states.

I still firmly believe that these are critical flaws within RingConn’s system that I hope to see fixed, and my original plan was to leave them in the video and just attempt to promote it through other platforms. However, this seems to be slightly impacting the performance of my most recent video, “The Drone For Everyone: DJI Neo Review”, and I have made the difficult decision to cut the content entirely.

I also believe YouTube was acting in good faith here, assuming my suspicions are correct. I assume that YouTube may have associated the contents of the video with election season content, which my audience may not be entirely into, leading to a limited reach. This seems to add up with the unusual amount of video traffic from my Australian audience.

I’ll continue to monitor the analytics, and if nothing changes the content will be readded to the video. I could simply be falling off for no reason, the algorithm is unpredictable like that.

Thank you for your understanding.

EDIT: For transparency’s sake, I’ve attached the transcript for the cut segment below:

RingConn also advertises menstrual health tracking through the ring and period forecasting through the temperature sensors on the device, but it doesn't appear in the app at all if your gender is set to male. This seems somewhat unnecessary, and could cause issues for individuals who prefer to identify as male and have reproductive organs that would pose a need for menstrual tracking features. The account option for prefer not to say also hides these features, preventing non-binary, genderfluid, and basically anyone else who doesn't fit into the construct of male and female from accessing them. However, particularly for people within the United States, I'd probably suggest staying away from these features and using tools more geared towards privacy which don't mandate cloud sync, such as the tools built into Apple Health or apps like Drip. If privacy isn't a huge concern for you, I unfortunately can't review these features personally, and I don't know anyone who I would be comfortable asking to do it for me, so I can't talk about its effectiveness.