[dylan604]

> One of the things that I'm trying to do is, is design filters to filter out advertising, so that when you're walking around, you could filter out real world spam.

Instead, I totally expect Meta and the Quest X to not block ads, but replace any IRL ads with targeted ads. You will not be able to turn this off. Instead, they could Black Mirror it and highlight each ad found and force you to stare at it for at least 5 seconds so the impression will count. If you don't, it'll just blank out everything else except the ad.

[sebastiennight]

Whenever the tell-all memoir of the next Meta AR ad executive comes out in a few years, I hope they credit your comment for giving them the inspiration of how to implement the Torment Nexus

[dylan604]

please, as if I've ever had an original idea.

[aspenmayer]

A man after my own heart.

[Ed.⁰ This is a colloquialism¹; 1 Samuel 13:14,Acts 13:22:

Colloquialisms were the original shibboleths, tbh, but no sexism or other -*isms intended or defended by the aforementioned, admittedly sexist, canonical quotation]

⁰ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor%27s_note

¹ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/1_Samuel#C...

[dingnuts]

What's the incentive to keep using the headset in your dystopia? if Meta sold the product you're describing, why would anyone buy it? Are you imagining a world with government mandated AR goggles? Why wouldn't I just take them off?

[hombre_fatal]

I think real world ad blocking is one of the least imaginative scenarios of the future.

Where we're going, you'd kill for a world where you just had ads on billboards and screens that you only saw when you were looking at them.

Just imagine the real problems we're going to deal with in a few decades with next-gen always-on AR that doesn't require a bulky headset anymore.

[dylan604]

What's the incentive to keep using any Meta product, yet people continue to do it regardless of the proven harm that their products do?

[dpc050505]

Same one that keeps my google pixel 5 in my pocket in spite of getting spammy ad notifications a few times a day.

[spullara]

i think the gator ruling might cover this:

https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/CPC/archive/eyeball/16GATO.h...