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ad blocker

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Taunting the general public. Always a winning move.

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It's like when someone tells me something is unbreakable. It becomes my mission to come up with a way of breaking it.

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- It's like the Titanic, it was doomed the moment someone called it unsinkable. No self-respecting universe would let that slide.
  
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  Fun fact: The "unsinkable" actually came from its sister Olympic, after it came out relatively unscathed from a collision with the Hawke (Wikipedia link)
  
  Fun fact: Between the 3 ships of the class, Olympic was the only that survived to retirement. Britannic was sunk by a mine in WWI after less than a year in service.
  
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- Hi, I'm the president of life lock and you can't hack my identi... Hold on, wait! Let me finish this commercial first!
  
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  Quality old school reference.
  
  Omg I tried to google that to see how old it was and there are so many NEW lifelock data breaches! I can’t even find that original shitshow.
  
  I legit feel really bad for all the people who got scammed by major companies “anti-“ programs.. They don’t know better and our laws should be so much more robust.
  
  https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/15/norton-lifelock-password-manager-data/
  
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- Sometimes it be your own CEO too. Right, Elon? LOL
  
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That's some chaotic good shit

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I remember someone got into such a billboard and replaced the ad with IKEA-style instructions on how to replace the ads in those billboards.

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- Ooh I've also seen that, it was surprisingly interesting to watch
  
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- Really ? got a link ? I wonder if the instructions work in any country (I assume the billboards are built differently)
  
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  Me too, I need to see this, too!
  
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Now someone needs to make AR glasses with the sole purpose to detect and blur out ads

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- Then, invariably, they put out a update that just puts in their own ads
  
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  Adblock+/brave browser glasses
  
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  Brave browser moment
  
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  Is this before or after they beam them directly into our dreams? I could really use a pair of lightspeed briefs...
  
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- More likely that technology will be used to overlay targeted ads
  
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  Yeah, but then somebody is going to crack them and make an adblock for real life.
  
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- This is called "being blind".
  
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  Those Braille reader screens will start injecting ads.
  
  And these dumb fuck advertisers will advertise something like car insurance on there.
  
  I always get these spam letters in the mail about how I am preapproved for car insurance. Like I don’t even have a drivers license, so their approval process is clearly not very thorough.
  
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  Banner blindness
  
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- "Peril-Sensitive sunglasses"
  
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- anti-google glass
  
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- i fear the opposite is going to happen
  
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- Replace them with the messages from The Live.
  
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- Why glass when we could have a chip directly into our brain ?
  
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Haha now if only they could do it in Times Square. That place is a giant eyesore.

I used to feel bad about using an ad blocker on the internet, but not anymore. I utilize PiHole and uBO for ad blocking now because the internet has literally become unusable without it. I never minded seeing ads, but they have gotten so brazen about it now with the most obnoxious ads possible. When the ads start negatively affecting the usability of the Internet there's a serious problem. So they can either use respectful ad placement and get some revenue from me, or they can have them blocked and get zero revenue. It's their choice.

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- That's why I like that my adblocker has an option to let respectful ads through.
  
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  Which adblocker do you use?
  
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- Wasn't there once a Spotify ad for their own premium service where all they did was play annoying dissonant sounds and then was like "you wouldn't have had to hear that if you had premium."
  
  I wouldn't have had to hear that if I didn't use your fucking app and torrented all my music, how bout that?
  
  (I never got an ad like this back when I still used Spotify so I can't confirm if this is real or not. Anyone else know what I'm talking about and can confirm if this was ever a thing?)
  
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  Gus got it right, they had the audio up like 9dB over the music (thats 3 fold audio power/volume for the non-nerds)
  
  https://youtu.be/BvQ571eAOZE
  
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You block origin

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Technically they didn't block it enough, you can still read the company name. Advertisers will love it even more because it will circulate social media. I hate this game.

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UCardboard Origin

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Oh my god that's Melbourne! I know that bus stop!!

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- The police are on their way
  
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  🚨
  
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Challenge accepted. :)

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physical ad-blocker

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Crazy how we could just pass a law outlawing billboards and ads like this. But we don't.
There are voter initiatives in so many states, but we don't use them for anything fun. Just carrying water for Uber to protect it from its employees or finding new ways to oppress minorities.

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- Imagine how different Time Square would be if those billboards showed valuable information instead
  
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This is my favorite thing that I've seen this week.

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Does anyone know the original ad?

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- why do you want to expose yourself to an ad, fuck that
  
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- Nope, but looks like the bus shelter manufacturer is advertising their own ad spot
  
  https://claudeoutdoor.com.au/product/bus-shelters/
  
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Bus-stops are such a rare space of creative expression !

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- Somewhere the cool teacher that everyone likes has this hanging as a poster on their wall I just know it
  
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No matter how clever you think you are, there is always someone more clever.

I used to think AR was a niche thing for business and kinda dumb for every day use but then I thought: You'd be able to block ads. Graffiti. Garbage. Just filter the world into a cartoon if you want. Now I fucking wish I had some AR device so I can literally live inside a fantasy world, if only visually. So instead of seeing a filthy bum puking his guts out onto the garbage cluttered sidewalk as he leans against a filthy encrusted brick wall, tagged with vile shit I'll instead see a unicorn projecting a rainbow against the backdrop of a magical grove.

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- That sounds an awful lot like Pyro from TF2
  
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- It's like when they say something is idiot proof, then the universe delivers a bigger idiot.
  
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- https://youtube.com/shorts/vKi-v7MUwug
  
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  Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/shorts/vKi-v7MUwug
  
  https://piped.video/shorts/vKi-v7MUwug
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
  
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- Dennou Coil IRL
  
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Insert Firefox meme here.
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I have seen a hot air balloon with a company logo on it...

Suggestions to block that?

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- rifle?
  
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  If that fails, heat seeking missiles
  
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- bow & arrow
  
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- Drone
  
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- Probably the same kind of tool general population would need to take down capitalism itself.
  
  But you won't see this because your instance censors mine.
  
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- 🎶Just don't look!🎶
  
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  Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/SlKao_Pox5A
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
  
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lol

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Testing Lemmy comment

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https://tenor.com/view/themarkoflife-mark-glascoe-markandqwan-tears-gif-21937199

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