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Why am I picturing Roddy Piper...

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.

Could be a plane dragging a banner!

The streets and the people? Believe it or not, also an ad.

Yes unfortunately

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/13/skyvertising-drone-ads

You're going to have to fight OP for half an hour before they try them.

People look weird with them on, too...

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

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.

Go lobby in your city, it worked in mine, no ads since many years

There's still one advertising banner there that's all spangled

it's amazing when you cross over the border into WA state and the giant video billboards every 2m evaporate, and you can see trees and mountains everywhere.

That's an ad for Bluesky^tm the new social media network

Those NYC countdowns are a eyesore. And the mooks willing to stand in freezing cold, waving corporate branded trinkets.

Those shows are wild.

Ironic that it's a cooperation with Google.

Well, 11 years ago anyway.

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.

This sounds like an absolute win