HACKER Q&A
📣 zahirbmirza

Why are Meta's Glasses being so openly promoted by popular Tech Blogs?


They are creepy, dystopian and dangerous but are being promoted as so wonderful. I can't figure.


  👤 Bowes-Lyon Accepted Answer ✓
Popular tech blogs do not promote products because of the goodness of their hearts, but for money.

Placing an article in a tech blog costs between $20,000 and $30,000, depending on the blog’s reputation, and everybody can do it.

So, it is not that the tech blogs are particularly enthusiastic about the Glasses; it’s more that Meta is throwing money left and right to promote them.


👤 phren0logy
The hardware is genuinely interesting

👤 bigyabai
All commercialized tech is creepy, dystopian and dangerous. Hasn't ever stopped tech reviewers, or tech customers.

👤 Random09
Money. And for the most part, tech blogs cannot just promote stuff that doesn't spy on you, because there is not much of it left to promote.