Taunting the general public. Always a winning move.
It’s like when someone tells me something is unbreakable. It becomes my mission to come up with a way of breaking it.
It’s like the Titanic, it was doomed the moment someone called it unsinkable. No self-respecting universe would let that slide.
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.
Well, and they ran out of the good bolts halfway through building the titanic and they had to use cheaper ones. And the captain thought it was fine to just barrel full steam ahead in a the foggy and icy north Atlantic.
Hi, I’m the president of life lock and you can’t hack my identi… Hold on, wait! Let me finish this commercial first!
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/
Wait did that dude end up getting hacked? Don’t remember that.
Idk about hacked but his identity was stolen at least 13 times as of 2018, and the company was fined for deceptive advertising practices and basically running a scam.
Sometimes it be your own CEO too. Right, Elon? LOL
That’s some chaotic good shit
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.
Ooh I’ve also seen that, it was surprisingly interesting to watch
Really ? got a link ? I wonder if the instructions work in any country (I assume the billboards are built differently)
Now someone needs to make AR glasses with the sole purpose to detect and blur out ads
Then, invariably, they put out a update that just puts in their own ads
Adblock+/brave browser glasses
Fuck chrome, Firefox with ublock origin
Agreed, FOSS ftw
Preach it, I’ll always take Foss options if they’re available.
Brave browser moment
I think you meant to say Firefox.
Is this before or after they beam them directly into our dreams? I could really use a pair of lightspeed briefs…
This is called “being blind”.
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.
Banner blindness
More likely that technology will be used to overlay targeted ads
Yeah, but then somebody is going to crack them and make an adblock for real life.
Replacing all ads with cat and dog videos
CatTube Premium
Which most people will not use because they don’t want to void their warranty
I’m not most people then.
“Peril-Sensitive sunglasses”
anti-google glass
i fear the opposite is going to happen
Replace them with the messages from The Live.
Why glass when we could have a chip directly into our brain ?
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.
That’s why I like that my adblocker has an option to let respectful ads through.
Which adblocker do you use?
I have network wide ad blocking with a PiHole server. I’ve also got a Wireguard VPN server so I can connect to have PiHole ad blocking on my phone while I’m out.
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?)
Gus got it right, they had the audio up like 9dB over the music (thats 3 fold audio power/volume for the non-nerds)
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/BvQ571eAOZE
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
You block origin
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.
UCardboard Origin
Oh my god that’s Melbourne! I know that bus stop!!
The police are on their way
🚨
Stop! You’ve violated the law, mate!
Challenge accepted. :)
physical ad-blocker
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.Imagine how different Time Square would be if those billboards showed valuable information instead
This is my favorite thing that I’ve seen this week.
Does anyone know the original ad?
CONSUME
Think it’s an ad for an ad company
why do you want to expose yourself to an ad, fuck that
Nope, but looks like the bus shelter manufacturer is advertising their own ad spot
