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This article assumes that advertisers can get more sophisticated than blockers - I don't agree. With good enough technology, any logo can be snipped out or scri
by JulianMorrison 11y ago
This article assumes that advertisers can get more sophisticated than blockers - I don't agree. With good enough technology, any logo can be snipped out or scribbled over. Any inline, self hosted image can be recognized and removed. Perhaps in future, adblockers will comb through the text of pages and the frames of video and your hero will be drinking "soda" instead of <brand name>.
Heck, one of these days, I want ad blocking glasses. So I can walk down the street and NO LOGOS.
It would almost be like humans owned the public space, then.
- octatoan 11y agoAFAIK someone did make adblocking glasses with image recognition software. :)
- sbov 11y agoAds tend to be in private spaces though. You can just see it from public space. Another way to achieve your goal is for the glasses to render giant walls around all private spaces. All cities would look like Manhattan then.
- JulianMorrison 11y agoI was thinking more like: detect an advert, draw a grey box over it. Or kittens.
- kuschku 11y agoYou can still ban ads in private spaces. Many cities did that. Sao Paolo is just one example
- wrsh07 11y agoTimes Square as one great shiny ... emptiness
- jamie_ca 11y agoSão Paulo, Brazil did just that[1] almost 10 years ago - outright banned outdoor advertising. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
- henriquemaia 11y agoRelated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8AMRbqY6w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8AMRbqY6w (They Live, 1988, Sunglasses scene)