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What if they could block advertisements in real time?
Then again, what if they start selling "virtual" ad-spaces and forces you to pay a subscription service to block them?
No, no that would be silly...
Jailbreaking my glasses in order to install an adblocker on them because by default they automatically fill every blank space with augmented reality popups.
2000s - Learning computers so you can torrent blink 182.
2020s - Learning computers so you can run an encrypted VPN tunnel to your home server running a root-less container of a pi-hole image to filter out ads and spyware to get your glasses to be somewhat functional. Also, your watch is bricked for some reason.
A heavy rock can do that too
Hmm. Not sold on them all the same. Didn't we go over all of this already with Google Glass? The sleeker design of these specs doesn't make them any less an absolute creep show surveillance state plaything :/
Fair, tbqh one good feature wouldn't make me buy them either cuz yeesh
I like that particular feature, but I'm sure it won't be long until they make an app to block out homeless people.