Daniel Genkin
Ben SandofskyBecause these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!
Dr. Unabart 
@sandofsky With the added bonus of not being able to see your car console while driving because that is also a monitor now!
Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@Unabart @sandofsky thankfully I do not need a car. Lucky me.
BTW this reminds me of the movie They Live
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
HolyCrapThat was also my first reaction.
Most famous quote from the film that I could use every day:
„I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.“
DJ Enno@prefec2 @sandofsky I love my car. I’m lucky I have one. It’s been a tremendous benefit to my livelihood. I would be fucked without it.
@Unabart @sandofsky This is unfortunate for you that you need a car and that they use screens with polarised light so many sunglasses can render them unusable. Unfortunately, this issue does not disappear with OLED. Of course this can be avoided with another type of sunglasses, but that can be quite expensive when you need special ones tailored to your eyes.
BTW thanks for reminding me of this issue. I would have missed that otherwise.
@prefec2 @sandofsky I don’t have polarized glasses. I can see everything as intended!
Tai xzo@taixzo @Unabart @sandofsky honestly I did not understand why, but it seems it does. I found multiple sources pointing that out and one that explained it. Also I did not find sources which claimed the opposite. However, if someone can provide a comprehensive and understandable explanation, I would be delighted to read it.
gerdcastan@prefec2 @taixzo @Unabart @sandofsky
Just a demo of the effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SIxEiL8ujA
With some explanations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUtl1--Z7g
Three polarizing filters: a simple demo of a creepy quantum effect
argonaut
d.rsnfld@prefec2 @taixzo @Unabart @sandofsky Most OLEDs use polarizers and wave plates to reduce reflections which would otherwise come from internal components. You lose brightness (~50%), but gain contrast. This is one of the reasons why the efficiency of OLEDs is lower than one might naively hope.
Here's one model: https://optics.ansys.com/hc/en-us/articles/5845197523731 (Note that the front of the display is at the bottom of the diagrams, and unfortunately the OLEDs themselves are left out.)
CurrywurstJust one more reason to drive a classic car :
Physical gauges aren't polarized.
Then I'm really lucky. My car is old enough - not having any digital screens in it 😂
JTW@Unabart @prefec2 @sandofsky "I would be fucked without my car" says good things about your car in context, but bad things about the built environment produced by car culture.
@jtwcornell91 @prefec2 @sandofsky I don’t give a shit. I love car culture. What I do is none of your business and I wish people would just mind their own. All I mentioned was a silly quip about reading a car console with polarized shades and every bicycle ninny lines up to educate me about cars and car culture. Do whatever you want. I really don’t care at all. Just please leave me alone about what I want to do. Thanks.
@Unabart @jtwcornell91 @sandofsky The thing is, we live together on this globe. The everyone minds his or her own business is not sufficient. We have cars parked everywhere, people cannot use the sidewalk safely, people get run over while motorists think when they can't see a thing there is nothing, or they don't look and kill another person on a bicycle or a pedestrian. Cars also use a lot of space, the infrastructure is expensive. So prior 1 for cars will not do it.
gretared
Peter Brett
Joe 
baer@Unabart @prefec2 @sandofsky my point was just that lots of people who don't love their cars would still be fucked without them.
Lavarick 🇩🇪✌️🤘
Darwin
Kjell Håftén@prefec2 @sandofsky
Love that movie! I wonder if there is some kind of paint that is invisible unless wearing polarized glasses
Love that movie! I wonder if there is some kind of paint that is invisible unless wearing polarized glasses
chuckadeus kummerer@Kjellhaften @prefec2 @sandofsky classic lcds have a polarized foil if you remove that you can only read the display with polarized glasses on.
Kitishin@Unabart @sandofsky it's ok with my car (sandero II) and my current phone (s21, it wasn't with my s7 though)
ERRORSMITH@Unabart @sandofsky This depends on the direction of polarization. The LCD panels that replace vertical advertising boxes at bus stops (at least here) have their polarizers turned by 90 degrees relative to normal displays due to the panels being mounted vertical instead of horizontal.
This results in them being blocked out by those glasses, while all the useful displays are not even dimmed by these glasses.
This results in them being blocked out by those glasses, while all the useful displays are not even dimmed by these glasses.
@Unabart @sandofsky Downside is not being able to use your phone when rotated.
SharedCow@sandofsky “Advertisers hate this one trick…”
Ross of Ottawa@Sharedcow @sandofsky "Five new ways to use your sunglasses – number three will shock you!"
RevK 
@sandofsky “but that is stealing from advertisers” :-) :-)
Thibaultmol 🌈
ryan@revk @sandofsky or “piracy” according to LTT lmfao
Gruik
El Gordo
Óscar Morales Vivó@gruik Thanks I came here to post this 👍🏽
Seiðr
Local
Andy
Laura Vanderperas 
@gruik @sandofsky I came here for this 😉
Simon ZerafaIt would be quite unfortunate if someone applied polorized film to the covers of those monitors 😇 🤷♂️
Grünspatz@simonzerafa @sandofsky how expensive is this stuff...
Pusher Of Pixels (old account)@sandofsky Oh look! Good spot! Its almost like somebody in tech got together with somebody in marketing and together they completely ignored reality. Shocker.
The Gray Witch@bocs @sandofsky More likely somebody in tech said it would be an issue, and was totally blown off by marketing, because the marketing guys think the tech guys don't know anything.
René Fouquet@sandofsky A “They Live” easter egg would have been nice.
Arlequín
Space Hobo
Matty Roses@sandofsky there's a They Live bit here
Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪@sandofsky The obvious corollary is that if you turn 90deg the lenses, you will not see the image of conventionally oriented monitors. Useful in restaurants with annoying screens so you can concentrate on the persons you are with.
Jack Rusher@sandofsky John Carpenter: Moootherfffucker!
a.d. 🗽🇺🇸@sandofsky Yup my sunglasses do that too. I can’t help to think this is the reverse of the movie They Live (one of my favorite movies). #Goodr #TheyLive
Vicente Precio 