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Ring is owned by Amazon, so it makes sense. You can't really trust any company fully, but Anker and Reolink are OK for now
Any cameras that can operate entirely offline are good. Dahua and Hikvision are good too. Look for cameras with RTSP and ONVIF support. ONVIF is a standardized API for interacting with cameras and can handle things like pan/tilt/zoom, sending events from the camera to the NVR (eg motion detection), and a bunch of other things.
I use Blue Iris as my NVR, which is usually regarded as the best, but there's other good software too (like Frigate), and hardware solutions too.
Just follow best practices - keep them isolated on a separate VLAN with no internet access. If you want remote access to your NVR, use a VPN like Tailscale.
Hikvision is app only which is really annoying. I wouldn't recommend it. (it also crashes my emulator for some reason)
Doesn't Hikvision support RTSP?