The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads (opens in new tab)

I was shocked as a non-hockey fan to see an ad of a car driving along the wall during active play. My eyes instinctively moved to the ad away from the puck. It was gross.

As an NBA fan, I hate how ads keep getting crammed into every piece of equipment on the court, the jerseys, etc.

It's even worse when the hockey players' white uniforms confuse the video effect algorithm into thinking the uniforms are part of the board and the algorithm paints the uniform with part of the ad.

see https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl-fans-are-already-fed-up...

I've been a hockey fan my entire life and now I can't watch any NHL games anymore. I made two attempts at watching my team's first game of the season. I didn't make it past the halfway point. I just can't focus, and the ads were giving me headaches to boot.

I went through a stage of mourning for the first couple weeks of the season. Now I'm just at a loss of what to do with my time...

mythtv is still pretty great fwiw.

Auto flagging ads is pretty good, but even don't bother, just using kodi as a front end with the plugin and skipping forward 3 minutes when an ad comes on does most of the job. (sometimes you do another 30 seconds or 1 minute and you get really good at it).

Start watching your program 10-20 minutes late and no ads.

Live sport is the only place I see tv ads at all nowadays - hence the crush and cram maybe?

Everything you do to avoid ads, from blocking your ears, to ripping out magazine pages, running myth or equivalent, pi hole and similar adblockers must be made explicitly completely legal on the grounds of self-defence and proper care of your family. Regardless of the legality it's kind of your ethical duty.

We had expert systems in VCRs 20+ years ago that did that. They just sensed the black frames that occur during the fade-in/out between the commercials and the content.

Dust off my old response to "augmented reality": subtractive reality.

I originally thought of it as "subtracting out annoying people" but "subtracting out ads" is much more compelling.

Several TV models already incorporate that feature. If your device is supported, your remote should have a button conforming to the IEC 60417-5009 standard to activate it.

I'm thinking of Carl Sagan's book _Contact_, in which one of the characters became a billionaire by developing "Adnix" (removed ads), "Preachnix" (removed televangelists) and "Jivenix" (removed politicians) technologies.

How soon will content makers make their content look like ads to force these algorithms to fail?

We've had the ability for DVRs to automatically detect and skip ads for at least a decade now. Dish is the most prominent company that tried it, and immediately got sued by TV networks and had to remove the functionality.

What happens when you watch Fight Club?

One reason for this is that ads generally have a high dynamic compression applied to the audio to make them seem louder. It’s jarring because the content you’re watching has a more reasonable level of dynamic compression.

What I really hate about ads on YT (chromecast) especially is that they come with no warning. Just BAM, in your face. They have added a countdown recently which makes it better because I can anticipate my experience sucking and turn off the sound.

Unless they're on the court, it wouldn't matter. It's not just the color, it's also the position of the players. The graphics are mapped to certain spots on the court, so this only happens if a player wearing the color stands where the graphic is.

Contact your local lawmakers, these regulations are definitely a thing: https://www.scenic.org/sign-control/billboard-facts-by-state...

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.

My moral belief is that being blasted with blinding amounts of light amounts to trespass and/or assault, and fully justifies a forceful response against the source of aggression (namely, the billboard). Obviously this is not going to be accepted as a legal argument, but if I'm not worried about the legal repercussions, I feel more than justified in taking matters into my own hands - for example, by cutting power to fixed billboards or by damaging vehicle-mounted billboards when sufficiently low-legal-risk.

There may or may not be groups of people doing this already and posting about it in certain venues...

You often see adds projected on players arms or legs.. Not only do the adds look horrible, they ruin the experience watching a game.

Some players, due to their complexion, sometimes appear to be going behind the ads.

Close enough in the UK, our football teams wear ads on their jerseys. The football club logo gets a tiny space in a corner.

Somehow most players have way darker skin, now we know why. /s

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.

I find it to be better than ever. Outside of sports I almost never see ads.

Video is available when I want it. The amount of content seems almost endless.

I was watching something on Roku and it’s really jarring being interrupted with ads all the time after years of streaming. Ironically, most of the ads were for more Roku hardware!

Scroll down a bit farther:

> After thinking about it for a bit, Godsey agreed to let me tell that story.

You only needed to read 2 more paragraphs to find:

> After thinking about it for a bit, Godsey agreed to let me tell that story.

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

Lived abroad for a while in a country I didn’t speak the language in at first. Felt so much better when I didn’t get the normal “Ad” dose day to day just from casually watching TV. (Very anecdotal)

I feel the same way but then when I'm promoting my own products I also feel like "my ads are useful to the audience I target". So I realize I'm a hypocrite when it comes to advertising. Maybe they aren't so bad?

Modern, post-XVI century, politics were born out of advertising. That's basically the advertiser's line, and they're right.

Gutenberg opened a huge can of worms. Day 1 bibles, day 2 pamphlets, and sooner than you know it, there's a whole internet popping cookies all over.

No, I don't like it much either, and maybe we should charge advertisers high fees for the privilege of messing with the collective mind, which is in none too good shape from all their ministrations. Perhaps that would dial it down.

I don't necessarily buy this. These sports would arguably not exist without the advertising that supports them.

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

In this case, it's relatively easy to avoid the ads in question by not watching sports. You're not losing anything that you would otherwise get without ads: US sports wouldn't exist on the scale that they do without advertising.

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

Ads make the culture. Where would American sports be without ads?

Wizards' cherry blossom jerseys are new this year: https://www.digital.ink/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/wiz-2122-...

Lots of teams in other sports have wear pink. Inter Miami in the US, Palermo FC in Sicily has had pink jerseys since 1907.

Inter Miami FC, the new MLS club owned by David Beckham, uses light pink as a primary color (the only other primary color is black).

There is a Sydney team in the Australian cricket competition that is bright pink.

As reported in the article, the author later received permission to publish it.

He literally says in the article that the person originally asked for it to be private but then agreed to let him repeat it...

“ After thinking about it for a bit, Godsey agreed to let me tell that story.”

The author got permission

They clarify later on that Godsey changed his mind and allowed the author to publish it.

And then you read another couple paragraphs and get to:

> After thinking about it for a bit, Godsey agreed to let me tell that story.

All that outrage for nothing.

No need to by sensational... Shortly after your quote the author wrote:

> After thinking about it for a bit, Godsey agreed to let me tell that story. Here’s a transcript of a Zoom conversation I had with him a few days ago, edited for length and clarity.