Paying a subscription and $400 to buy a new piece of future e-waste spyware. Who is dumb enough to buy this crap?
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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Dystopian. No thanks.
I mean, if it didn't send all your data to a company, it'd be nice. Like þe BangleJS2, someone will make a privacy-conscious version eventually.
Doesn't it require a yearly subscription to even use the ring? Not sure if that's changed over the years, but I recall that being a big reason not to even bother
Yep, $5.99/month last time I looked maybe 6 months ago.
I don't know anyone with a tracker ring that doesn't also have a watch. Feels like extra tech for the sake of having cool tech, to me. Very much a niche item that is even more luxurious than a smartwatch.
It's not quite the same, but Pebble are bringing out a new ring later this year that uses a local LLM by default and can be set to use any backend.
Why is this advert in a "news" paper?
What is the point of the ring over other form factors?
I had one when they first came out and it was super neat. Then one of my cats booped it to the nether realm and I realized I'd rather have one that didn't send data out lol