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ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you

400 points · 351 comments · choult

flexagoon · 1789991418 · focus · HN ↗
Not sure why you'd use this sketchy vibecoded proprietary app over the same thing that's open source and existed for a while
<a href="https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
1. colesantiago · 1789992258 · focus · HN ↗
  Unless you're selling to grandparents over 50-70, nobody says yj_nearbyclasses or "Nearby Glasses".
  "ZuckOff" is a better quality marketing name for an app like this, vibecoded or not.
  The media and already consumers have talked more about "ZuckOff" than "Nearby Glasses" so a winner has already been chosen.
  1. dmantis · 1789993367 · focus · HN ↗
    It's a better marketing indeed, but that doesn't answers the op's question.
    Between something opensource and trusted, and a proprietary potential backdoor that can send the data back to the Zuck himself you'd probably want to choose the former (cause you never know with closed sources).
    I'm glad that he has shared the link as for me it's definitely useful. It's not a competition and I don't care what media talk, that's not about money.
    colesantiago · 1789994220 · focus · HN ↗
    There isn't any hope for something called "yj_nearbyglasses" if nobody outside of technical people know about it so OSS is kind of a moot point here.
    Outside of that, this project giving scary warnings is something I cannot recommend to others.
    > Between something opensource and trusted and proprietary backdoor that can send the data back to the Zuck himself you'd probably want to choose the former.
    Only HN veterans care about this, not people in the real world.
    dmantis · 1789994389 · focus · HN ↗
    You can expect exactly HN people to read a comment saying "why would you use smth instead of" on HN.

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