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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 99 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Subscriptions for offline features should be completely illegal. In fact Meta is probably already technically illegal.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

If we lived in functional democracies most large multinationals would've been split up a long time ago, including Meta.

Instead we live in a grey area of plutocratic corporate dictatorship.