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The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by sidewndr46 »

asdff wrote: post #40
kube-system wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, the worst offenders are not billboards but signage for local establishments, which would usually be unaffected by a billboard ban.

Be happy these monstrosities haven't been installed near you yet, but they are coming eventually for us all: https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/rdqu7o/las_favo... https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/p3ry42/you_can_...

There is a strip club near me that is quite a ways off the interstate. They put up a sign so large you can see it from the interstate. For good measure they added in a lighthouse like light that revolves.

It's awful.

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by LordDragonfang »

eastbound wrote: post #55
cwkoss wrote: post #32

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Would be pretty dank and cyberpunk if someone built an onion-service ADsassination market, where you could put bounties on ugly public-space ads and a decentralized network of spraypaint-drone operators could deface those ads to earn crypto.

Bounties for citizenly public actions. But how do you prove it’s you? Maybe book a time slot. If the light disappears in this time slot, you get the bounty.

That's basically the premise, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by nonameiguess »

kube-system wrote: post #17
kibwen wrote: post #16

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Why settle for crumbs? There should be limits on how many billboards, digital or otherwise, are allowed to exist, and that limit can be "zero". Advertising is a blight.

In my experience, the worst offenders are not billboards but signage for local establishments, which would usually be unaffected by a billboard ban.

I used to live across the street from AT&T Plaza in downtown Dallas, which now has this 70-foot jumbotron monstrosity lighting up 10 city blocks, 99% of the time with a screensaver: https://attd.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/13155803/A...

So glad I moved right before they started construction on this. This is on 24/7, and how that is remotely acceptable in a place people live I have no idea.

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by kekkidy »

throw827474737 wrote: post #49
quacked wrote: post #38

I hate advertising so much. I would ban it immediately if allowed. It makes society so much worse in every possible measure. http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html

100% true, only advertising that could be allowed is if the viewer intentionally wants and agrees to consumption.

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Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by kenjackson »

kibwen wrote: post #16
macintux wrote: post #9

Tangential at best, but there really should be limits to how bright (or white) a digital billboard can be. I’ve been temporarily blinded at night when, while trying to read an ad with a dark background, it switched over to a different ad.

Why settle for crumbs? There should be limits on how many billboards, digital or otherwise, are allowed to exist, and that limit can be "zero". Advertising is a blight.

I'm probably the only person, but I feel like the tradeoff in value I get for advertising is reasonable. Would the world be a better place w/o ads? Maybe, but I don't see how you avoid a world where there are competing products and one tries to convince you somehow to use their product/service. It seems almost as natural as requiring payment for providing a service.

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by cyanydeez »

quacked wrote: post #38

I hate advertising so much. I would ban it immediately if allowed. It makes society so much worse in every possible measure. http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html

I'd say the biggest problem with advertising is it increases perceived value and utility where none exists, and overtime makes people think certain products are cheaper, environmentally friendly or just benefitial

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by ryeights »

asdff wrote: post #40
kube-system wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, the worst offenders are not billboards but signage for local establishments, which would usually be unaffected by a billboard ban.

Be happy these monstrosities haven't been installed near you yet, but they are coming eventually for us all: https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/rdqu7o/las_favo... https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/p3ry42/you_can_...

That is truly awful. Enough to ensure I will never move to L.A. so long as it is in operation.

Any city government that allows an installation like that deserves to be dissolved. How have people not figured out how to destroy that monstrosity yet?

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by kenjackson »

nonameiguess wrote: post #58
standardUser wrote: post #30

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Modern television is, in my experience, on-demand, ad-free and of vastly higher quality than the crap I used to "surf channels" on for hours.

Not live sports. At least the picture clarity and resolution has vastly improved, along with the sheer number of camera angles, but digital pollution of the screen space has proliferated and ads have not gone anywhere, and where they used to sometimes be fairly amusing, they're largely just depressing now since they're 75%+ for betting services, with PSAs warning you not to lose your family's life savings sprinkled i…

When you say Live Sports, are you talking about watching a sport live on television, or attending a game live and watching the jumbotron?

Re: The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

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Post by layer8 »

doubleocherry wrote: post #2

From the article: "Teams can’t wear cream anymore because it interferes with the digital ads that are placed on the court in broadcast due to the uniforms being so close to the color of the wood that is keyed out in the process."

Couldn’t they just charge for the additional ad space?
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