https://www.wired.com/2017/04/forcing-ads-captive-audience-attention-theft-crime
TLDR; screen ads in places like elevators where people are forced to wait, steal our attention without offering anything in return (ie a tv show or web service)
How does a person counteract these kind of ads? Localized EMP? SUPER meditation? wearing blinders or headphones?
@amy Aside: the author, Tim Wu, has written a fantastic book on this subject called "The Attention Merchants": http://a.co/22SOXFU
He notes that in 19th century Paris there was a huge explosion of posters across the city. At first they were welcomed because many were quite beautiful (think "Le Chat Noir" and other posters people still buy today), but eventually there were just so many that the locals rebelled. The city passed laws and the posters mostly went away.
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