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I love the slider, but why did they have to put a painted red dot on it? It makes it look as if the camera is on and recording me. It’s unnecessarily jarring.
by booleandilemma 5y ago
I love the slider, but why did they have to put a painted red dot on it? It makes it look as if the camera is on and recording me. It’s unnecessarily jarring.
- NegativeLatency 5y agoA little bit of black fingernail polish could fix that
- booleandilemma 5y agoI agree, but it's my company's laptop :(
- m-p-3 5y agoThe red dot on the builtin privacy slider I have a work is behind the camera's outer lens. I can't paint on it without trying to unglue that and ultimately break it.
- taylorfinley 5y agoWhen I saw the red dot on my wife's Lenovo laptop I immediately thought 'that looks like an IR pass filter.' if a company wanted to have a bypassable privacy slider they could have an IR cut filter behind the lens and an IR pass filter up front. When the bypass needed to be activated the IR cut filter could be moved out of the way (this happens automatically on night vision security cameras, so it's not farfetched). I don't think they would actually use the bypassable filter in everyone's camera, maybe just political dissidents, but having the red dot be the standard would make it less noticable when a bypassable filter is deployed. We just slide it half way, then there's no irritating red dot and the camera is still covered.
- jspash 5y agoI had to google what you were talking about and I agree, that is terrible design! It infers the total opposite of what its purpose is. A little Ghostbusters symbol - even in red - would work much better.