Blocking real-world ads: is the future here?

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• Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just be like the French and ban billboard advertising. No need for these stupid gadgets.

  French cities are banning billboards - marketplace.org/…/french-cities-are-banning-billb…

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ll turn to spray paint and vandalism is we ever reach that kind of ad hellscape.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Super clever project, but goddamn does this need feel so dystopian.

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  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Work 8 hours

    Sleep 8 hours

    Play 8 hours

    Old-school dystopias were a fucking dream compared to the modern world I guess.

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So, through my lifetime that “Work 8 hours” somehow evolved into:

      Leave for work at 7am. Show up for work by 8am. Get an hour for lunch, unpaid. Leave work at 5pm. Get home approximately 6pm, if you don’t stop to buy groceries or something.

      I suppose commuting and lunch are supposed to be part of those “8 hours of play”?

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  • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m all for the “SLEEP 8 HOURS” bit though. I need more of that in my life.

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    • MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If anything this is an overly optimistic representation of consumerism given that they limit work to 8 hours and encourage 8 hours of play

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• lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you can superimpose a blocker over real-world ads, you can superimpose ads onto plain walls too

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If there’s a real world screen showing a real world ad to you, you’ve got to be really careful not to lean against the screen with a broken spark plug or some other sort of ceramic shard, because you could easily shatter the screen and make it really hard for you and other people to be advertised to 👉👈🥺

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Google DuckDuckGo “Tactical Pen” 😏

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• molten@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Any AR or XR glasses that don’t sell your data to everyone who gives a shady glance? or can be modified not to?

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• mat@linux.community ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Enjoyed the article but augh that sticky banner at the top that follows as I scroll took up 30% of my reading space. Gave up halfway through to enable reader mode on Firefox mobile…

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• Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Instructions to block ads in real life:

  Step 1: Pull out your eyes.

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Step 2: Blow out your ear drums.

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• TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Seems to me pointless, biggest one being, if this was developed in a working manner, and was used… advertisers would mix between going more subtle, or more obnoxious. Just like on the web.

  IE subway stations could put say a code you need to get into the subway in the middle of an advertisement. IE the real life equivelant of “you must disable your adblocker to continue”.

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