Gregory's ServerBecause these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!
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  @sandofsky @amethyst TIL Hoffman lenses are just polarized sunglasses @sandofsky STOP USING ad-polarizer you are stealing from poor ad space owners!!! :kappa: :kappa: @sandofsky you just made Invasion Los Angeles (or They Live) glasses, I bet you'll chew bubblegum and kick ass.  @sandofsky This reminded me of one of my favorite movies They Live. https://invid.peoplever.se/watch?v=yjw_DuNkOUw  @sandofsky I visited The Soviet Union during the Brezhnev years. No advertising anywhere to be seen. Felt like a dead, dreary place with no life. Just saying. Thx @sandofsky This is every screen in the subway system. The cool part tho is if you take a second pair of sunglasses, hold them at 45° between the screen and the sunglasses you’re wearing—the light from the screen which had been completely blocked by the anti-glare layer on the TV and your sunglasses now gets UNBLOCKED when you put that extra blocker between. #QuantumPhysics @sandofsky coming soon: new law to tilt your head 90 degrees to the side every 5 seconds if wearing sunglasses. @sandofsky  @sandofsky I just kick and punch them till they're no longer displaying an ad
 Oui, j’ai ça tout le temps avec mes lunettes solaires polarisées. C’est un peu plus chiant avec les écrans de guichet bancaire. @sandofsky Does it affect traffic lights and other important displays? Because that one over the advert is blocked and that traffic light at the background doesn't seem to be visible either. @sandofsky A bit like the sunglasses in "John Carpenter’s They Live" 😀. @sixtus  @dok  @sandofsky I need glasses that block all ads. Plus those horrific images on cigarette boxes here. Everybody throws them away outside and I have to look at gross pictures while walking the dog. Also tabloids are visual litter I'd like to get filtered out. @sandofsky Is the polarisation of all polarized sunglasses and of all monitors always in the same direction? Or do I need two sunglasses? @sandofsky, here these billboards mostly have this kind of LED pixels, so I believe polarization wouldn't help us (I can test another day), but I'm glad to know that in the first world you can have ad-free walking. =] @sandofsky @MathiasWolfbrok I can’t see my laptop screen while wearing my sunglasses either 😭
@sandofsky polarized sunglasses beginning to be "hard to find" or "mysteriously disappearing from the market" in 3..., 2..., 1...  @sandofsky IRL They Live moment...  @sandofsky I'm al little surprised they didn't just make tall screens but instead rotated wide screens. I suppose it sort of makes sense in that most existing production is for widescreens, so why make something new, but these are still clearly somewhat custom given that extreme ratio.  @sandofsky Now I wish the real-life adblockers would work as on web pages and actually reclaim the space taken up by ads! 🙂  @sandofsky a while ago I was at a petrol station and none of the displays were working, so after some fudging I went for it and filled my tank. When I went in to pay I reported that the pump displays were broken and then promptly left. Half a mile away I realised I was wearing polarised glasses. I still wonder what the attendant thought of me when he went out to check...   @sandofsky Zaphod Beeblbrox's sunglasses prevented him from seeing znything that would upset him. @sandofsky Does this work on TV as well? Can I rotate my ears so I don't have to listen the ads on radio? Questions over questions....   @sandofsky That's if you're lucky. The polarization angle of the glasses may be different and it is not certain that it will coincide with the polarization angle of the monitor. |
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