I deleted my Facebook eleven years ago. I wish I could say it was for some cool reason about privacy concerns and whatnot, but honestly it's because I was spending way too much time arguing with people I barely knew, and I figured that that's not healthy.

I missed Facebook for about a day, and after that I barely even thought about it. In 2021 I bought an Oculus Quest 2, which at the time required a Facebook account so I made a throwaway one, but other than that I haven't been on Facebook (and I haven't even touched my Quest 2 in three years).

Point being, it's really not hard to get off Facebook and to ditch Meta products. More people should delete it.

Yes, I'm surprised at this. I would've never expected they would be doing this, and I didn't exactly have high expectations of Meta. This is incredibly invasive and not at all what people expect.

There's plenty of people that don't own these smart glasses, as far as i know it's still only early adopters using them but i guess i could be wrong. The nice thing is you actually can vote with your feet here because there's no network effects, whereas there's tons of people that are stuck being on facebook or instagram because of everyone else that's on there.

Your dollars don't matter. They get so much state funding that this is just how the future is going to be. You'll like it.

Yes, and this is a good start:

https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Among others, blocks Meta/Facebook/Google/Apple trackers and ads. Every router on the planet should run this.

When you buy them and set them up you are told this many times. The onboarding screams at you that everything you do is used for training AI.

Maybe this changed since I set mine up, but I felt so damn informed I was getting tired of tapping I understand.