> Many of these services, which use simple tools like drills and dental probes to disable the recording light, have been advertised on Meta's own platforms. There are also dozens of videos on YouTube offering DIY tutorials.

This right here is why these stupid camera-on-face products are non-starters outside of very niche applications. They're never going to the next iPhone because people will assume you're secretly recording and there's a non-zero chance someone is going (rightfully) get freaked out and suddenly make it a very serious problem for you. Like did these product people ever talk to the average parent from the midwest and ask what kinds of violence they'd gleefully mete out on someone they believed to be covertly recording their children?

It's a scenario that makes these things unthinkable for public use.

Beyond this, everyone already has an excellent camera on their phone and there just isn't a need to have a face camera on all the time.

These products seem like a very easy IQ test for product managers and investors and yet huge market cap companies are failing it.