Just be like the French and ban billboard advertising. No need for these stupid gadgets.
French cities are banning billboards - https://www.marketplace.org/story/2023/03/06/french-cities-are-banning-billboards
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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I'll turn to spray paint and vandalism if we ever reach that kind of ad hellscape.
Any AR or XR glasses that don't sell your data to everyone who gives a shady glance? or can be modified not to?
If you can superimpose a blocker over real-world ads, you can superimpose ads onto plain walls too
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...
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".
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 👉👈🥺
~~Google~~ DuckDuckGo "Tactical Pen" 😏
Instructions to block ads in real life:
Step 1: Pull out your eyes.
Step 2: Blow out your ear drums.
Super clever project, but goddamn does this need feel so dystopian.
Work 8 hours
Sleep 8 hours
Play 8 hours
Old-school dystopias were a fucking dream compared to the modern world I guess.
Al Bundy peaked in highschool, never went to college, was a shoe salesman at the mall. Al Bundy had an, at least, three bedroom single family home in a nice neighborhood, supported a family of four plus a dog on his single income, had ample free time to spend with family and friends and to spend on hobbies.
Al Bundy: Failure and constant butt of jokes in the 1980s, unobtainable vision of success in the 2020s
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"?
Eight hours of labour, eight hours of recovery, eight hours of preparing for labour/recovery.
I'm all for the "SLEEP 8 HOURS" bit though. I need more of that in my life.
If anything this is an overly optimistic representation of consumerism given that they limit work to 8 hours and encourage 8 hours of play