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Meta glasses might be useful, but then Meta goes and reminds us all why they're such a terrible, untrustworthy, scummy company. This isn't even the first user privacy violation this year. theregister.com/2025/06/03/met…

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

: Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins
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André Polykanine

I'd still buy them as there is no viable alternative for blind people. I measn… I grew to have this colclusion that #Accessibility is the most important thing to me. I've been telling it to open-source warriors, against-Google, against-Microsoft, against-Meta varriors and so on: if you are abled, you have choice. I'm disabled, I need to work and live my life as fully as I can. So yeah, privacy and all this stuff is good, but to me accessibility is far more vital and important.
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Alex Hall

@menelion I definitely get it. I'm not judging or condemning anyone for using Meta products. For some it's accessibility, for some it's the only way their friends and family communicate, for some it's for neighborhood watch groups or buying used products. It's sad that nearly all of us are involved with Meta in some way, but it's reality. Plenty of us have no choice.
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Georgiana Brummell

@menelion You can't call someone from them, but they can read text (either quickly/live or after scanning it/document mode), answer questions about it, read bar codes, and tell you what's around you. They can work with the ARx app, as well as Seeing AI, and another app for reading labels whose name I forget at the moment. The page can be found here. Note: I am not affiliated with them. I'm just a user of their product.

arx.vision/


ARxVision

The ARx AI Headset: An AI-powered talking camera for the blind and visually impaired. ARx connects to Android, translating the world into clear audio descriptions.
ARxVision
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