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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Now someone needs to make AR glasses with the sole purpose to detect and blur out ads

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Then, invariably, they put out a update that just puts in their own ads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adblock+/brave browser glasses

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fuck chrome, Firefox with ublock origin

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Preach it, I'll always take Foss options if they're available.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think you meant to say Firefox.

[–] Lucidlethargy 4 points 1 year ago

Is this before or after they beam them directly into our dreams? I could really use a pair of lightspeed briefs...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is called "being blind".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Those Braille reader screens will start injecting ads.

And these dumb fuck advertisers will advertise something like car insurance on there.

I always get these spam letters in the mail about how I am preapproved for car insurance. Like I don’t even have a drivers license, so their approval process is clearly not very thorough.

[–] transientpunk 2 points 1 year ago

Banner blindness

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More likely that technology will be used to overlay targeted ads

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, but then somebody is going to crack them and make an adblock for real life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Replacing all ads with cat and dog videos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

CatTube Premium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which most people will not use because they don’t want to void their warranty

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm not most people then.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"Peril-Sensitive sunglasses"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

anti-google glass

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

i fear the opposite is going to happen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Replace them with the messages from The Live.