Sawzall blades are cheaper and actually remove the offending infrastructure. Faraday cage the electronics until they naturally discharge. Harvest the goodies thereafter. Be smart. Be safe. De-flock.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2026
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Not that indiscriminate. Flock cameras are concentrated in marginalized communities: https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/d6j3b_v2.html
Just use crazy glue
Don't print this if your printer has one of those internet-connected ghost gun print scanning systems.
People who are motivated to print and deploy these are likely not going to have one of those compromised printers.
Maybe out of people in this community and maybe for now. I checked just now and was surprised that even though Bambu has been making all their printers dependent on cloud services and closed source software, they apparently don't send all your prints to a government-affiliated entity for approval yet. But it's going to be law in California and New York so expect most printers sold in the US to have this in the future, and most cloud-dependent printers already sold in the US to add it on so they can continue selling their current models.
Are those out yet?
A plastic cover only hinders the camera. There are more surveillance devices within. The only sure method of disablement is complete destruction.
Gotta take out the Bluetooth to make it worth it
Vaseline is cheap and accomplishes the same result
Silicone spray...once a surface is contaminated with silicone there's virtually nothing that can clean it off other than gasoline or similar molecules.
While gasoline is far more expensive than it used to be, it's still pretty fucking cheap for a cleaning agent.
and as an accelerant...
But you probably would not want that anywhere near a camera. Most lenses are plastic or have coatings or glues that turn hazy in contact with hydrocarbons. So its silicone hazy or crazed plastic haze. Pick your tick.
Eh... You'd be surprised at how trivial it is to make things impervious to such basic chemicals. This isn't the 80s.
Most lenses are plastic
No they're not. Glass is optically far superior and not that much more expensive.
this has shown not to be effective flock just sends someone to remove it, only sawing the pole off is, it makes them waste more resources putting up a new one.
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The dude they send out to remove my fancy new rainbow sparkle camera faceplate, how much you suppose they pay him per hour? I bet I can make them send him out here at least a dozen times on a single $15 roll of PLA, and I (probably) wouldn't catch charges if they caught me with it.
Scratch the lens?
A garbage bag works too. It's also apt.
Give me 4 hours, some duct tape, and some old cardboard and I can make more than one Flock Camera UV Protection Cover. Biodegradable too. For the most part.
Why not tie a plastic bag on it though
Another pointless protest. Do people seriously believe this kind of performative gathering is going to stop indiscriminate mass surveillance? It's just the organizers creating more noise for self-promotion and microplastics everywhere 💀
Someone in the comments recommended using an actual old sock. I don't know. I don't like these things. but I don't have a circular saw. To be fair, I don't have a 3D printer either. Is spray paint and old socks the way?
150g filament and takes less than four hours
Seems like a lot to me. I think an old sock is better
Baseball is a popular pasttime in america, perhaps we should all practice. Hrm, I could be in the wrong sub.
Hacksaws are pretty cheap and a good blade on a tight saw makes shockingly fast progress on aluminum and mild steel.
You're right, but if I'm killing one of these things in view of the public, I want in and out in seconds.
If it's the right kind of blade and you're not out of shape, it is still seconds. No, not sawsall fast, but faster than an angle grinder, for example.