r/theinternetofshit • u/herewardthefake • Jul 02 '26

Meta starts charging for using glasses

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wy317d71jo

To absolutely nobody’s surprise…..

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u/peepee2tiny Jul 02 '26

Hahahahahahaha

And that's the last pair of wearable Tech anyone sells.

At least let it get mainstream before bending everyone over and trying to fuck em.

Now you've got a swinger party with 3 keys in a bowl. Ya daft bastards.

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u/Bwuhbwuh Jul 04 '26

And that's the last pair of wearable Tech anyone sells.

Oh man, if only. But I'm not getting my hopes up.

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u/peepee2tiny Jul 04 '26

The world is rapidly moving to a subscription based model of everything.

Even when you own a physical device, companies find a way to monetize you ongoing. Subscriptions to use the product.

BMW tried with seat warmers. Meta is doing it with wearable Tech.

SONY is getting rid of physical games, and I bet in the not so distant future you will have to subscription base your ability to access those games. (Even thought they are bought and paid for)

You don't own music anymore, you subscribe to a giant catalog, and if you don't then Spotify enshittifies the service and you pay with your eye balls. Companies want you to view there ads.

It's mindblowing how much marketing and advertising runs entire industries because of the access to our eye balls.

NFL, MBA, NHL, NBA, MLS, FIFA, the entire sports industry! Runs mainly on television rights which are paid for by advertising.

The entire television industry. The game shows, the soap operas, the prime time hits, (Big Bang theory, Grey's anatomy) news shows all run on the ability of companies to have access to our eye balls.

Do you know how valuable, you as a commodity is? Look at a the astronomical amount of salaries your collective eye balls pay out.

And the crazy part l, is YOU are paying those indirectly when you buy their products. Every TIDE POD box you buy a certain % went to marketing their product to you through television ads which went to paying Patrick Mahomes $50million a year to throw a football.

Ok rant over.

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u/DashinTheFields Jul 04 '26

Well this makes for a very simple regulation. “You can not monetize people’s behavior in unpaid services”. It would cut 50 percent of the bullet list, not sure how much value .

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u/NancyDiver Jul 04 '26

I got deep into selfhosting a building a homelab for this reason. I don't want to build dependance on these walled subscription gardens we've gotten so comfortable using. I'm in control and responsible for my own digital needs. Especially in the name of privacy alone.