In contrast, what made the targeted ads somewhat more troubling was the fact that tied in with the privacy footage revelations — where the glasses are recording to an extent even if they’re not — was the feeling that the glasses could see everything I saw. And that was a hard thing to shake.
Sure, most people on the internet are aware of search history, cookies, tracking, and personal data use being leveraged to promote products, ideas or suggested searches. But being confronted by targeted suggestions based on what you’re seeing immediately in front of you is a somewhat shocking wake-up call.
It’s baffling that tech journalists aren’t telling people to run screaming from devices like these.
So if I’m understanding it correctly. They are seeing ads literally in front of them all the time? Like those glasses are playing ads constantly?
No, but they’re getting ads on their other devices based on stuff they see that they happen to ask meta about, or upload videos of. There’s no HUD for it to serve ads to you on the glasses.
We’re just speedrunning into this future: https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs
I think that would be the next step, once they get enough idiots to hook onto that shit. For now, I believe, the ads are only on the platforms to which they’ve already hooked everyone. But I’m also an optimist, huh xD
