DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever

I mean, I'm not gonna buy them, but I still enjoy the dad joke.

Sometimes corny is fun

Right. Anti-pervert glasses would at least require some lasers to meet the requisite qualifications.

You can hide your eyes with the anti light version of the anti pervert glasses!

Fair - it's marketing.
But it's good marketing - lambasts a stupid thing that people dislike to promote a product that is selling the opposite (privacy).
Good goal, and the marketing is clearly working here we are talking about it.

Also DDG browser is awesome on mobile and Windows. Blocks many ads and trackers, even on YT. Lightweight, wicked fast, offers not only private search but private AI chat.

Use DDG Because Gemini is SUPER creepy when it inserts personal info in unrelated questions. It keeps inserting my family details in answering unrelated questions now... Like a perv.

Yep. Just normal, AliBaba sunglasses.

Yeah... I think "anti pervert glasses" is a stretch for normal glasses. If anything, it makes you accidentally look like a pervert using pervert glasses to spy on people.

There are infrared reflecting glasses that blind cameras.

Maybe a sort of anti pervert mesh network where gamma radiation is fired in the direction of whoever wears pervert glasses and eventually kills them with cancer.

It’s incredibly irresponsible and would have unintended consequences for otherwise innocent people but it would technically work so capitalism says ship it before China does!

Yeah, well said. I wish someone would sell and manufacture actual anti surveillance glasses

They're barely making back the research costs of producing sunglasses without a lithium-polymer battery or a 12 megapixel CMOS camera.

THE ABOVE COMMENT IS SARCASM.

there's no extra markup involved here for what is essentially a marketing thing.

they're $35. which is also the price the 'normal' (not 'collab' edition) ones sell for direct on ka's web site or at retailers like rei.

What, no company names to help out a fella?

Brawdo's got what plants crave.

Some company just placed DDG logo on existing model of glasses and is selling them for exact same price as a joke. It's not like DDG started manufacturing glasses specifically for this joke.

The reason is probably to garner as much brand awareness as possible bc the goal of marketing isn't to just get a point across. If a company like DDG can gain a good amount of brand awareness by advertising and selling some relatively inexpensive sunglasses with the company logo on it then I personally see it as a net positive.

While the headline doesn't discuss it, the article begins with "Meta has opened Pandora’s box with its AI-infused smart sunglasses. The pricy accessory has sparked a heated debate over privacy, with unsavory individuals abusing the eyewear’s easily-missed cameras to harass unsuspecting strangers in public — garnering the specs the distinctly unflattering nickname of “pervert glasses.”"

How are glasses not technology?

I will let you know when they're available again 😈

Yeah, I love my ray-bans but I don't think I'll be buying another pair as long as they are making pervert glasses. I feel kinda gross wearing them, afraid people will think they are the pervert kind... kinda like wearing a red hat

Ray-Ban is owned by Essilor-Luxottica, a truly evil conglomerate. Worse on Purpose has an excellent piece about them that is well worth everyoneʻs time to read.