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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools (futurism.com)

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[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm genuinely terrified by those... Any solution to avoid them besides looking closely at everyone wearing glasses?

I know there are apps that try to detect them but I don't want to leave Bluetooth enabled on my phone 24/7

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In my experience, those apps don't detect immediately, sometimes only alarming beyond 5 mins after contact. I have to assume by default to save power the scans are rate limited, like with WiFi scans.

Those apps have to be allowed to scan when the glasses are transmitting to detect them, providing limited success.