The Viral 'Antizuck' App Makes Spotting Smart Glasses Easy (and Potentially Pointless)

Rising3 outlets reported this in 3 reports over 2 days

After publishing: 1 headline quietly rewritten1 change

gizmodo.comseen 8 Aug, 13:48headline rewritten
~~The Viral Smart Glasses-Sniffing App Is Informative, but Anticlimactic~~The Viral 'Antizuck' App Makes Spotting Smart Glasses Easy (and Potentially Pointless)

Wed, 5 August 2026peak 2 reports on Thu, 13 August 2026Thu, 13 August 2026

What it is about

Meta Gen Raymond Wong Gizmodo James Pero Gizmodo Union Square Samsung Google New York, United States Facebook Otac OTAC Metinim

Who published it, and when

original reportedited after publishingfirst to report

gizmodo.com

dailydot.com

Index.hr (Croatia)

5 Aug, 15:08over 8 days13 Aug, 12:07

How it spread - 3 original reports

Wed, 5 August 2026
1 report
- gizmodo.com15:08first to reportedited after publishing
  The Viral 'Antizuck' App Makes Spotting Smart Glasses Easy (and Potentially Pointless)
  previously~~The Viral Smart Glasses-Sniffing App Is Informative, but Anticlimactic~~
  For $3, the Antizuck app claims to sniff out smart glasses while running in the background.
Thu, 13 August 2026
2 reports
- dailydot.com07:24
  Father Said He Was Surrounded by Meta Smart Glasses Wearers at the Beach With His Infant Daughter — He Is Asking Why They Are There
  Meta Smart Glasses 'creeps' called out by a dad who was at the beach with his infant daughter and partner via 'Anti-Zuck' app.
- Index.hr (Croatia)12:07
  Otac kaže da su ga okružili ljudi s Metinim pametnim naočalama na plaži s kćeri
  OTAC je na plaži izrazio zabrinutost zbog ljudi s Metinim naočalama.