I agree with you aesthetically, though if it was a privately-owned, publicly-accessible space, I wouldn't go as far as to commit vandalism, as bad as it may look. (If it was placed by a member of the public without consent of the owner I'd agree with taking it down.)
That said, I've been waiting for a good set of widely popular AR glasses to come out so I can write a real-life ad blocker for them.
>I agree with you aesthetically, though if the ad was placed by the owner of the space I wouldn't go as far as to commit vandalism. (If it was placed by a member of the public without consent of the owner I'd agree with taking it down
I get what you're saying, but I'm sort of beyond this now. The invasion of personal space has reached a point where I'm prepared to fight dirty, too.
Here's a novel idea: advertisers might put a modicum of care into selecting the time, place, and manner in which to present products to the world.
> Here's a novel idea: advertisers might put a modicum of care into selecting the time, place, and manner in which to present products to the world.
Yeah I totally agree. Bombarding peoples' senses isn't even effective advertising, IMO. They can do better.
Here's another novel idea: How about make products actually good, and let third parties review them? Most of the time I choose products based on reviews, not ads. If I'm in the market for something I probably will watch reviews about the various choices.
That could be really interesting. Layer some art over it?
I wonder how hard it would be to distinguish between various things while driving. Billboards are mostly useless. Traffic signs of course can’t be covered up. Then in between we have cases like signs for gas stations and fast food (which are technically ads I guess but they are actually useful).
Traffic signs and signs for gas stations and fast food are largely standard (color/fonts/symbols/etc.), they can be easily recognized as such by a neural net and whitelisted.
That said, when I'm a pedestrian, I wouldn't mind traffic signs being covered up as well. They completely destroy the look of the surrounding architecture and flora, but I understand they are a necessity for the cars. As a pedestrian I don't really care what the speed limit is.
That said, I've been waiting for a good set of widely popular AR glasses to come out so I can write a real-life ad blocker for them.