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The internet with no adblock is a little like driving through Breezewood, Pennsylvania https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk

by trts 5y ago

matheusmoreira 5y ago
A little. On the internet, the ads actively jump in front of our faces while we're trying to read something. Imagine driving under such conditions.
- banana_giraffe 5y ago
  Be more like this virtual barrier in Sydney: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325904/Water-stop-sign-Virtual-barrier-curtain-water-halts-lorries-driving-small-tunnels.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325904/Water-stop-...
neogodless 5y ago
That's actually a pretty famous photo. You can right-click and see a much larger one. Must get that full-sized advertising goodness. https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/postwar-contemporary-photographs-n09781/lot.89.html https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/postwar...
- GuB-42 5y ago
  Famous and deceptive. It is a narrow angle shot, taken straight down the axis of very specific strip. Take an off axis, wide angle shot, and billboards disappear. I don't remember the details but photographic tricks like that played a large role in a trial opposing advertisers to people who considered billboard an eyesore. The former used wide angle shots while the latter used telephoto. We saw a lot of tricks like that related to covid and social distancing. Heavily zoomed pictures of "crowded" beaches, streets, etc... where in reality, it is far less dense than the photo makes it look like.
louky 5y ago
Hilariously that won't even load for me on firefox w/ublock origin.
skrtskrt 5y ago
that picture only captures, like 5-10% of what you see as you pass through there. I think it's always ridiculously represented as "hurr this is what America is!" It has every chain business there because it's the intersection of major highways where there's no other meaningfully-sized rest stops around for hours.
- wyclif 5y ago
  Indeed, people outside the US (especially Europeans) don't really grasp the scale of the US interstate highway system. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, "The United States is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." It's so big, that if you're driving long distances over the middle of the country you have to make sure you stop for fuel and food and a biology break whenever you get the chance, because there's no guarantee you're going to be able to find a place in flyover country.
anothernewdude 5y ago
Given that ads are a major vector of malware, it's more like raw dogging a prostitute.
barnbuilder 5y ago
What makes Breezewood unique is that you are forced off of a freeway to drive through that strip. Otherwise it looks like many other American roads. I think the internet without Adblock is more like these heinous digital video billboards in Los Angeles that appear above the road, directly in the line of vision of drivers. Why these are legal is incomprehensible to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ZeROERRrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ZeROERRrg
- fmmlp 5y ago
  Why advertisements are legal at all is incomprehensible.

The internet with no adblock is a little like driving through Breezewood, Pennsylvania https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk

by trts 5y ago

The internet with no adblock is a little like driving through Breezewood, Pennsylvania https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk

matheusmoreira 5y ago

A little. On the internet, the ads actively jump in front of our faces while we're trying to read something. Imagine driving under such conditions.

banana_giraffe 5y ago
Be more like this virtual barrier in Sydney: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325904/Water-stop-sign-Virtual-barrier-curtain-water-halts-lorries-driving-small-tunnels.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325904/Water-stop-...

neogodless 5y ago

That's actually a pretty famous photo. You can right-click and see a much larger one. Must get that full-sized advertising goodness. https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/postwar-contemporary-photographs-n09781/lot.89.html https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/postwar...

GuB-42 5y ago
Famous and deceptive. It is a narrow angle shot, taken straight down the axis of very specific strip. Take an off axis, wide angle shot, and billboards disappear. I don't remember the details but photographic tricks like that played a large role in a trial opposing advertisers to people who considered billboard an eyesore. The former used wide angle shots while the latter used telephoto. We saw a lot of tricks like that related to covid and social distancing. Heavily zoomed pictures of "crowded" beaches, streets, etc... where in reality, it is far less dense than the photo makes it look like.

louky 5y ago

Hilariously that won't even load for me on firefox w/ublock origin.

skrtskrt 5y ago

that picture only captures, like 5-10% of what you see as you pass through there. I think it's always ridiculously represented as "hurr this is what America is!" It has every chain business there because it's the intersection of major highways where there's no other meaningfully-sized rest stops around for hours.

wyclif 5y ago
Indeed, people outside the US (especially Europeans) don't really grasp the scale of the US interstate highway system. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, "The United States is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." It's so big, that if you're driving long distances over the middle of the country you have to make sure you stop for fuel and food and a biology break whenever you get the chance, because there's no guarantee you're going to be able to find a place in flyover country.

anothernewdude 5y ago

Given that ads are a major vector of malware, it's more like raw dogging a prostitute.

barnbuilder 5y ago

What makes Breezewood unique is that you are forced off of a freeway to drive through that strip. Otherwise it looks like many other American roads. I think the internet without Adblock is more like these heinous digital video billboards in Los Angeles that appear above the road, directly in the line of vision of drivers. Why these are legal is incomprehensible to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ZeROERRrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ZeROERRrg

fmmlp 5y ago
Why advertisements are legal at all is incomprehensible.