{"id":14812,"date":"2019-04-16T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebooks-portal-will-now-surveil-your-living-room-for-half-the-price.html"},"modified":"2019-04-16T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:03:37","slug":"facebooks-portal-will-now-surveil-your-living-room-for-half-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebooks-portal-will-now-surveil-your-living-room-for-half-the-price.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Portal will now surveil your living room for half the price"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, you\u2019re not misremembering the details from that young adult dystopian fiction you\u2019re reading \u2014 Facebook <\/a> really does sell a video chat camera adept at tracking the faces of you and your loved ones. Now, you too can own Facebook\u2019s poorly timed foray<\/a> into social hardware for the low, low price of $99<\/a>. That\u2019s a pretty big price drop considering that the Portal, introduced less than six months ago, debuted at $199.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for whoever toiled away on Facebook\u2019s hardware experiment, the device launched into an extremely Facebook-averse, notably privacy-conscious market. Those are pretty serious headwinds. Of course, plenty of regular users<\/a> aren\u2019t concerned about privacy \u2014 but they certainly should be.<\/p>\n

As we found in our review<\/a>, Facebook\u2019s Portal is actually a pretty competent device with some thoughtful design touches. Still, that doesn\u2019t really offset the unsettling idea of inviting a company notorious for disregarding user privacy into your home, the most intimate setting of all.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s premium Portal+ <\/a> with a larger, rotating 1080p screen is still priced at $349 when purchased individually, but if you buy a Portal+ with at least one other Portal, it looks like you can pick it up for $249. Facebook advertised the Portal discount for Mother\u2019s Day and the sale ends on May 8. We reached out to the company to ask how sales were faring and if the holiday discounts would stick around for longer and we\u2019ll update when we hear back.<\/p>\n

\n

Facebook Portal+ review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

Article source: http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/techcrunch\/social\/~3\/Fo-tyNI_11g\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, you\u2019re not misremembering the details from that young adult dystopian fiction you\u2019re reading \u2014 Facebook really does sell a video chat camera adept at tracking the faces of you <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,7,14,15,6,12,11],"class_list":["post-14812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-update","tag-computer-news","tag-downloads","tag-microsoft-download-news","tag-networking-updates","tag-technology-update","tag-wordpress-plugin-download","tag-wordpress-theme-download"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t