A paywall isn't enshitification. Verge is a good site worth supporting; pick up a (cheap) sub and you won't have those issues.

Terrible person buying influence for terrible reasons.

Right so that’s the escalation - I go from having to be careful online to having to wear makeup or a mask. Not great!

Phones already roll randomized wifi MAC but either way “you’re already being tracked anyway” isn’t a great response to privacy concerns.

If it was just individuals capturing these data for themselves that would be one thing, a minor privacy issue similar to someone pulling their phone out and taking a picture of you without asking. But it'll be millions of these devices everywhere and all their data will be collected by a few companies.

Today with some effort I can mostly avoid being tracked by Google, the world's largest ad network, by careful internet behaviour but how will I be able to do that when every other pair of glasses is feeding them imagery?

It's a matter of scale.

I think the idea is not just to have cameras for normal camera things like taking photos/videos, but to generally have more sensors on you so the AI can get a continuous read of what you're doing in order to respond and act in context. Like you could already wear headphones and have voice AI in your ear but it doesn't know your situation beyond maybe general location and whatever it can pick up with mics.

I can imagine being able to point at things to refer to them or asking "which one of these is best" type of questions without having to describe what you're looking at. It would probably be much better at proactively providing information too, or even taking actions for you.

I'm not sold on whether we really need any of that but I think that's the idea.

Exactly

Chip yields are what they are. Relying on binned chips isn't artificial supply limiting.

So shitty they can't make enough of them to sate demand

It would be kind of interesting if these machines fined based on outliers from the norm rather than specific values.

First I'll stop using Apple apps and services, and if i'm still exposed to ads then I'll stop using their hardware.

I pay a premium for Apple products because they claim to put the user as a centre of everything they do. This is not doing that.

Ads suck, no one wants them, and the only reason for them to be there is to make money for the company. Get them out of my UX. If you make it hard to block them that is anti-competitive behavior on top of being user hostile.

From the moment the first tool was crafted it was inevitable that technology would appropriate all human labour.

The question is what do we want the world to look like when that time comes and how do we minimize harm to people during the transition. This is the true fight with the tech oligarchy - not trying to prevent the inevitable but fighting to ensure the future is equitable.

Unfortunately it's a fight against selfishness, the core human flaw. Not having to work to survive could be the next human evolution, something biology has not accomplished to date. But it can only bring a utopia if available to all.

The gains go to the owner.

Will someone write an article about me now?

It's easy after someone else did the hard work of finding the exploit and building tools and instructions.

And/or they already replaced meat in their diets with plant-based alternatives.