Greg Dare
TingoWant UblockOrigin for life
Some kinda augmented reality that replaces all display advertising with classical art or gifs from /r/aww
Quote attributed to Banksy put it best:
a7ndrew@fixatedpersonsunit that's wonderful.
Mori@fixatedpersonsunit Great quote.
One of the most insidious travesties is advertising companies convincing people that personalised advertising is a good thing. No it’s not! It makes the ads more affective at psychologically nudging you towards an outcome that benefits the advertisers and their customers. It allows them the charge more money for that benefit. And it trains you to accept a very high level of advertising.
Turn off personalised ads and the pain you quickly feel from all the dross is what ads are really like.
Looking for explanations…
AmonTheMetalHead@mori @fixatedpersonsunit This is why I advocate adblocking, not using chrome etc. Even my android phone is ad- & google free and I wouldn't have it orherwise.
@AmonTheMetalHead @fixatedpersonsunit Yeah I eventually de-googled a few years back, partly from using other apps, partly from switching the iPhone, which isn’t perfect, but isn’t Google.
(((Klefstadmyr)))@mori @fixatedpersonsunit This was one of the selling points at Xwitter: "pay for blue mark and get more personalised ads." I'm sorry, if you want to surveille me on internet you have to do it for free.
skua
NK30 
@skua @fixatedpersonsunit "Don't allaw him to speak", except dumping all the shit aut of his brain onto 
Sir_Osis_of_LiverThere was a sign for a real estate agent that I would pass on my walk to work.
At one point someone started sticking ~30mm googly eyes on the agent's face. It was juvenile, and ridiculous, and I loved it.
For almost a year, googly eyes would show up for a few days, then the signage people would clean them off, only to be replaced a few days later.
The agent finally relented and went to a text only sign, which was sort of too bad.
seism0saurus@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @fixatedpersonsunit
Maybe your local nerd stuff supply has these usefully emergency googly eyes.
Howlin' Hobbit@fixatedpersonsunit @Sir_Osis_of_Liver @seism0saurus
definitely looks like something that Seattle’s Archie McPhee would have in stock.
I think you can shop online too.
undead enby of the apocalypse@fixatedpersonsunit @Sir_Osis_of_Liver silliness is great
@fixatedpersonsunit @Sir_Osis_of_Liver there used to be a few busses with ads like that on the back that had a picture of the landbastard, I know it’s probably a lot harder to do that on a bus and not get caught but it would’ve been hilarious to see the googly eyes shake as the bus moved (and way better than being filled with rage as the piece of shit that is exploiting other people’s need for housing and increases the rent at every opportunity making the whole housing situation of the town even worse grins at you smugly from the back of the bus driving in front of you)
Mizah@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @fixatedpersonsunit No replacing the o’s and the dots on the i’s with googly eyes? Sad.
itgrrl 
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @fixatedpersonsunit letters (especially “O”s) can have googly eyes too… #JustSayin’
Andrew Zonenberg@fixatedpersonsunit I had the same idea years ago.
Was thinking just black rectangles but I guess I'm boring that way.
Peter Bindels@azonenberg @fixatedpersonsunit I was thinking rectangles of like 30cm high and 1m20 wide, saying "AD BLOCKED", to be placed diagonally across the ad
Kevin Forbes@fixatedpersonsunit I wouldn't mind just the "They Live" setting that replaces them with OBEY CONSUME REPRODUCE etc
lscherff
CoolMcCool@fixatedpersonsunit Yes, but isn't that new Apple mother nature ad so wonderful, blah, blah. Such wondrous story-telling, etc. etc.
Actually, it makes me want to VOMIT.
Actually, it makes me want to VOMIT.
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)@fixatedpersonsunit @me_ For a while polarized sunglasses were that. The ad display panels at lots of bus stops were polarized the same way as sunglasses, so showed up empty. Sadly ad companies caught on to that.
Erik (OLD ACCOUNT)@fixatedpersonsunit utterly brilliant and true
Rob@fixatedpersonsunit Yet again Banksy is right on point!
Bakunin Boys@fixatedpersonsunit at night, rave near the guard's compartment naked with a blue light. Amen.
The Vargarnir system@fixatedpersonsunit you can sorta block out a bunch of modern ads by using a polarised filter on a pair of glasses.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw337w/these-screen-blocking-glasses-are-ad-blockers-for-real-life
Buuuuut now im wondering if we could do something more active.
Like a camera mounted to a HMD that you can see through, like the XReal Air. You could set some image processing machine learning system to detect ads and logos and have it output a white box in the appropriate part of the display to cover up the ad.
It would eat up power like crazy, but would make an interesting point.
Psy Chuan 
@garrwolfdog @fixatedpersonsunit any tech solution inevitably becomes a space for advertisements. the developers of that would immediately start selling exceptions to advertisers
@PsyChuan @fixatedpersonsunit Not nessessarilly, the great enshitifcation is not an inevitability but you would have to open source the hell out of it. It depends if you're doing it for building it for profit or for a public good. See the creator of VLC
Seb Lee-Delisle@fixatedpersonsunit I remember an art project that did that exact thing quite a few years ago. Maybe it was @JulianOliver ?
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@fixatedpersonsunit The screwiest part is: there is a small body of evidence saying that advertising does not influence our buying choices that much.
pmars@fishidwardrobe @fixatedpersonsunit individually maybe not. On a large scale I'd guess yes. There is research on how propaganda works that shows that it works even if you are aware that it's propaganda. And what is advertising if not propaganda for products.
C-27733@fixatedpersonsunit where I live billboard adverts have been made illegal, though small ads (on bus stops for example) are allowed.
and I cannot describe how annoyed I am when I see one. aside from these small ads, I see pretty much none, with the contrast becoming quite jarring.
aerique
FionnulaMac@fixatedpersonsunit @minekpo1 Back in 1981, I was working in W Berlin for the summer. Took a day trip to E Berlin and realised that the ‘grim colourless’ environment was due to a complete absence of ads. Made me v sad for the west. Ads were the only colour in 70s Dublin. It was still a shithole.
Laurens 🐐@fixatedpersonsunit You can train your consciousness to "ad block" and ignore advertising, both visually and audibly. I'm typing this while there's a commercial block on the radio. Those go in one ear and out the other, so to speak. I just ignore them.
Sam Adeleine@ElBeeToots @fixatedpersonsunit
1) Are you sure they're not affecting you? Being hyperaware of ads might make you less likely to be influenced by them, because you associate their message with disgust.
2) Not everyone can control their focus that way—cf #ADHD—which makes advertising an issue of #ableism.
1) Are you sure they're not affecting you? Being hyperaware of ads might make you less likely to be influenced by them, because you associate their message with disgust.
2) Not everyone can control their focus that way—cf #ADHD—which makes advertising an issue of #ableism.
@samadeleine
1) Yes, I'm sure. I am aware of the existence of ads and commercials, but they neither entice nor disgust me and I really need to focus my attention on them to 'get' their message. I can't explain it otherwise. The only way a commercial or ad sometimes stands out to me is when it's funny or very obnoxious. And even then I won't be enticed to buy their product.
2) Yes, I know. That's an "art" that advertising companies have perfected to the maximum 😒
ACG@fixatedpersonsunit I tried making this for noise pollution once, initially using trying to filter out "Never gonna give you up" as a test, by playing the inverse wave form at the same time. Initial tests were not great, so ironically I did give it up
mmby@fixatedpersonsunit my personal dystopia is that with that sort of AR technology, real space could start being discounted even more, but on purpose:
the design of public space extended to AR is encroached by brands and ad markets, and without the ads, things might look worse - reality as a lever to get people into the brand/ad pipelines
redmaker@mmby @fixatedpersonsunit Which is exactly the point of the quote: Make it your own.
Fuck the add, paint over it. Make the grey Benz go away, draw a rainbow over it. Make the fake smile go away, paint a real smiley instead over it. Change the depressing letters and make them a message of hope.
Suffice to say I did my fair share of "street art" already, mmh? :D
punIssuer@fixatedpersonsunit image description [1/2]: [excerpt from street artist Banksy's 2004 pamphlet Cut it out]
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.
@fixatedpersonsunit [2/2]
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.
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.
Nova🐧✨@fixatedpersonsunit that's doable with current tech!
1. train an image segmentation model to mask out ads
2. get a good track on those ads by using the 3D scanned scene or text or whatever
3. put a plane there, draw whatever image you want on it
🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣@fixatedpersonsunit Bill Hicks was totally right about marketing scumbags
Bill Hicks on Marketing
Pamela N Red@fixatedpersonsunit I have never understood why people would pay over a thousand dollars for an ugly bag that has the company logo all over it only because someone decided it was prestigious to do so.
And I bet you know the company without me even telling you.
And I bet you know the company without me even telling you.
Patrick GillamA few toots up I read Greta Thunberg say "We can't save the world by following the rules." And here I read Bansky say something similar. Now to find a third stick-it-to-The-Man item to complete my need for things to come in threes. Thanks.
Mamafalda
knapjack@thereisnocat @fixatedpersonsunit I remember reading a review of Pacific Rim and the reviewer noted that there was zero advertising in the movie. Still fascinates me when I watch it.
GeoffreyWinn
Selzero@fixatedpersonsunit This is brilliant and has got me thinking.... 🤔
Félicia M.
Nidonemo@fixatedpersonsunit Wow…may they live a thousand years of perfect health.
Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann
WhitmadWho was it who said "advertising is a form of pollution?"
PeachMcD@fixatedpersonsunit
#ImNotSayingImOldBut I remember a time before #Corporations convinced people to advertise on their bodies
#ImNotSayingImOldBut I remember a time before #Corporations convinced people to advertise on their bodies
SofaKingHigh@fixatedpersonsunit I’m convinced that banksy is my spirit animal
Barry Parr@fixatedpersonsunit David Ogilvy, perhaps the greatest of all ad men, despised billboards.
Barry C