Someone make glasses that do this please.

I would totally wear smart goggles that do this.

Unfortunately it's far more likely that we will receive smart goggles that add ads, not subtract them.

Why am I picturing Roddy Piper...
- Obey
- "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass..."
- Came here for the They Live comments
- The Animal loves you
Yes and no. For ads to make any kind of revenue, you first need an user-base. And if the first thing you do is riddle them with ads, it will probably really hurt the sales.

So, the first generation of smart glasses should be pretty OK as far as ads go. Of course, they will gradually introduce them, but that will hopefully take several years before we get to that point.

And inevitably some FOSS/privacy focused alternative will show up, just like you have with GrapheneOS, PinePhone and similar. Or, assuming they will let developers side-load their apps without going through proprietary store (which may be unlikely, given the current trend of locking everything down - on the other hand, there is a pretty large market of developers who wouldn't touch anything Apple-level of closed and someone will definitely want to cash in on it), you will eventually get OCR ad-blocks for billboards outside. I bet that would be one of the first apps developed once possible.

The sky too???

Could be a plane dragging a banner!
- That’s why I never look up, just can’t risk it
Yes unfortunately

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/13/skyvertising-drone-ads
- I think I saw this shared on reddit with a tweet response that said something like "if I look into the sky and see an advertisement I'm becoming a terrorist."
  
  Does anyone remember that or just me?
The "sky"? You mean round-earths billboard?
Air™ advertising

I have a pair that kind of does this. When I put them on, the ads go away but are replaced with huge phrases like "OBEY" and "THIS IS YOUR GOD" on every building. 7/10 - improved but not blocked.

You're going to have to fight OP for half an hour before they try them.
- fight the shit out of OP. and they're gonna smash your balls.
- I would, but have you seen his posting history on this site? I can't possibly match talent like that.
People look weird with them on, too...
- "This one here, real fuckin ugly!"

This is actually a thing for me. I hate having to see ads everywhere when going outside. Not one bus stop without tons of ads plastered around.

Reminds me of the "Banksy on advertising" quote:

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. 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.

It really is one of my favorite ones

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- This must be one of the best things I have read on this topic! Thank you very much!
- Holy shit that is amazing! God i love that guy...
I find it wild to go to a different country where they have different laws where there are so many more billboards. It's already bad here but seeing how it could be even worse is insane.
- Yeah. India is fucking wild when it comes to billboards. New York billboards looks pleasing to the eyes comparatively lol.
- If it is working as intended it's a straight up safety hazard (distracting attention, how many accidents ?)
Go lobby in your city, it worked in mine, no ads since many years
- Seriously. There are places in the US where billboards are not allowed in any shape or form, and it's glorious. Local civics matter.
- Thats pretty awesome! How did you do it? I dont know where to begin.
- I worry this would cause them to raise the fare

Honestly this is so much better!

There's still one advertising banner there that's all spangled
- the flag?
Without all of the ads, this looks like Toronto.

Hawaii made laws decades ago to stop big advertising stuff destroying the visual beauty of the islands.

I guess NY never really had that going for it.

it's amazing when you cross over the border into WA state and the giant video billboards every 2m evaporate, and you can see trees and mountains everywhere.
- Western Australia?
- Until you hit tribal land along I5 in Tacoma and get slapped in the face by giant billboard sized casino TVs.

This reminds me of blocking ads on twitch. You can't skip the ad but you can instead look at a black screen for the exact same duration. And that's preferable.

You had to block the sky?

That's an ad for Bluesky^tm the new social media network

Basically the plot of the Christmas Black Mirror episode.

Funny, I thought the same thing. As opposed to this, that episode was horrifying.

I tuned into the NYC new years, and I guess it's been awhile since I saw images of NYC - holy shit, it looks terrible! HAPPY KIA NEW YEARS! seriously? every inch of building is a scrolling screen. wow.

Those NYC countdowns are a eyesore. And the mooks willing to stand in freezing cold, waving corporate branded trinkets.

Those shows are wild.

Rather than blocking it out, replace it with greenery, shrubs, trees, flowers, grasses

Some of the most beautiful areas of any city are where people and nature are together. Just give me big ass trees alongside the towering buildings!

And instead of blocking it out, destroy it, and do the things that you said instead.
I mean, if we're talking about New York you've got a huge ass park just around the corner. But yeah, I agree
- Yup, it's amazing. And the real estate around central park is some of the most valuable in the world!
  
  But plants are nearly free, so we could just have that in more places...
- What's an ass-park?
- A park. How nice.

Someone did that already actually: Here's the article

Ironic that it's a cooperation with Google.

Well, 11 years ago anyway.
- Oh wow. This reeks of embrace-and-extinguish. That doesn't mean that an ironic backfiring isn't possible though.
I actually dread the day that augmented reality becomes so unobtrusive that it becomes as ubiquitous as smart phones. I guarantee that this means less funding for garbage disposal, since you can just block the garbage on the streets. It would mean even less compassion for the homeless, since you can just disable them in your view. It would mean a filter even the pedestrians you see: You’re a racist? Block all non-whites.
If only it were real 😔

Living life in the present age is being almost constantly under pressure from people trying to influence you to do what they want (which is what Advertising is: sales pressure, often of the slimy kind that tries to influence you subconsciously).

Properly trying to do what is rationally in your own self-interest whilst minimizing the influence (as I mentioned, because Marketing nowadays use techniques from Psychology, commonly subconsciously) from those trying to manipulate you into giving them your money is tiresome, to say the least.

Just the other day I saw the new Aquaman film and the amount of in-your-face Product Placement (mainly of a known beer brand) was literally disgusting and significantly spoiled the film (which, frankly, wasn't all that great to begin with - Special Effect rompfest with bad writting).

I saw my buddy watch the Aquaman film yesterday, and his face was glued to the screen like a child. Seeing anything Marvel or that other one in Europe is like, how do these people just eat this war mongering blatant military propaganda ultraconsumerist bullshit right up like that?

But then I remember it's because of brainwashing since birth.
- Brainless violent rompfest films are basically chewing gum for the brain.
  
  I wouldn't read too much into it.

Time square police say "take off the fucking glasses!"

More like Google would send someone out there to punch you and take your wallet for the privilege of a premium service
- What if I wore Google Glass and installed ublock origin on it?

Vote for decent people, or lobby against ads, there is no street ads in my city since many years its so good (the mayor did not renew ads contracts and banned it)