Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

2026-07-01 11:36 UTC

TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month “meta premium” subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses. If you don’t subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.

Replies (6)

@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-01 20:53

This should be in “leopards at my face.” They didn’t care about the impact of their carless decisions, and now they are getting screwed.

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@tae_glas@slrpnk.net 2026-07-01 11:44

good! hopefully this will discourage everyone who bought them from using them, so they just sit in a drawer somewhere or get recycled instead of spying on unwitting people, and meta will fail to make back the huge amounts of money they’ve invested in tech that most people don’t want 😌

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@cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-02 04:06

Good. Enshittification of the panopticon goggles.

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@vocornflakes@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 04:12

Meta’s finances must be in the shitter to be enshittifying a premium product.

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@01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2026-07-02 01:04

I’m actually OK with this enshittification, and hope it continues into oblivion on the Facebook spyglasses. Personally

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@NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2026-07-02 00:23

beginning of the end for yet another set of AR glasses

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