• Gork@lemm.ee
    129·
    10 months ago

    I would totally wear smart goggles that do this.

    Unfortunately it’s far more likely that we will receive smart goggles that add ads, not subtract them.

    • Mikina@programming.dev
      24·
      10 months ago

      Yes and no. For ads to make any kind of revenue, you first need an user-base. And if the first thing you do is riddle them with ads, it will probably really hurt the sales.

      So, the first generation of smart glasses should be pretty OK as far as ads go. Of course, they will gradually introduce them, but that will hopefully take several years before we get to that point.

      And inevitably some FOSS/privacy focused alternative will show up, just like you have with GrapheneOS, PinePhone and similar. Or, assuming they will let developers side-load their apps without going through proprietary store (which may be unlikely, given the current trend of locking everything down - on the other hand, there is a pretty large market of developers who wouldn’t touch anything Apple-level of closed and someone will definitely want to cash in on it), you will eventually get OCR ad-blocks for billboards outside. I bet that would be one of the first apps developed once possible.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    53·
    10 months ago

    I have a pair that kind of does this. When I put them on, the ads go away but are replaced with huge phrases like “OBEY” and “THIS IS YOUR GOD” on every building. 7/10 - improved but not blocked.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
    32·
    10 months ago

    This is actually a thing for me. I hate having to see ads everywhere when going outside. Not one bus stop without tons of ads plastered around.

    • kadotux@lemmings.world
      72·
      10 months ago

      Reminds me of the “Banksy on advertising” quote:

      People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

      You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

      Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

      You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

      It really is one of my favorite ones

      edit: formatting

    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
      10·
      10 months ago

      I find it wild to go to a different country where they have different laws where there are so many more billboards. It’s already bad here but seeing how it could be even worse is insane.

        • Welt@lazysoci.al
          3·
          10 months ago

          They can be pretty funny though. I saw one that said “LEPROSY IS COMPLETLY CURRBAL” and underneath there was a bit of space left so they drew a crude map of the T-junction nearby with names of where each street goes.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        If it is working as intended it’s a straight up safety hazard (distracting attention, how many accidents ?)

  • Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone
    24·
    10 months ago

    Hawaii made laws decades ago to stop big advertising stuff destroying the visual beauty of the islands.

    I guess NY never really had that going for it.

  • clearleaf@lemmy.world
    201·
    9 months ago

    This reminds me of blocking ads on twitch. You can’t skip the ad but you can instead look at a black screen for the exact same duration. And that’s preferable.

  • CraigeryTheKid@lemm.eeEnglish
    171·
    10 months ago

    I tuned into the NYC new years, and I guess it’s been awhile since I saw images of NYC - holy shit, it looks terrible! HAPPY KIA NEW YEARS! seriously? every inch of building is a scrolling screen. wow.

  • macaroni1556@lemmy.ca
    15·
    9 months ago

    Rather than blocking it out, replace it with greenery, shrubs, trees, flowers, grasses

    Some of the most beautiful areas of any city are where people and nature are together. Just give me big ass trees alongside the towering buildings!

    • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
      19·
      10 months ago

      Ironic that it’s a cooperation with Google.

      Well, 11 years ago anyway.

    • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
      62·
      10 months ago

      I actually dread the day that augmented reality becomes so unobtrusive that it becomes as ubiquitous as smart phones. I guarantee that this means less funding for garbage disposal, since you can just block the garbage on the streets. It would mean even less compassion for the homeless, since you can just disable them in your view. It would mean a filter even the pedestrians you see: You’re a racist? Block all non-whites.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
    12·
    10 months ago

    Living life in the present age is being almost constantly under pressure from people trying to influence you to do what they want (which is what Advertising is: sales pressure, often of the slimy kind that tries to influence you subconsciously).

    Properly trying to do what is rationally in your own self-interest whilst minimizing the influence (as I mentioned, because Marketing nowadays use techniques from Psychology, commonly subconsciously) from those trying to manipulate you into giving them your money is tiresome, to say the least.

    Just the other day I saw the new Aquaman film and the amount of in-your-face Product Placement (mainly of a known beer brand) was literally disgusting and significantly spoiled the film (which, frankly, wasn’t all that great to begin with - Special Effect rompfest with bad writting).

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      I saw my buddy watch the Aquaman film yesterday, and his face was glued to the screen like a child. Seeing anything Marvel or that other one in Europe is like, how do these people just eat this war mongering blatant military propaganda ultraconsumerist bullshit right up like that?

      But then I remember it’s because of brainwashing since birth.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        Brainless violent rompfest films are basically chewing gum for the brain.

        I wouldn’t read too much into it.

        • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          I wouldn’t read too much into the 24/7 broadcast of government propaganda installed in every apartment either, truth be told.

  • bassad@jlai.lu
    11·
    10 months ago

    Vote for decent people, or lobby against ads, there is no street ads in my city since many years its so good (the mayor did not renew ads contracts and banned it)