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It was only a matter of time before this tech is used for advertising. Soon spots in the sky will be bid on like AdWords.

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if this drone display of a very short (relatively) duration is annoying to you, you must have missed all of the chatter about ad displays like this from satellite constellations in LEO. um, nope. I'd be all for anti-sat technology at that point

A primary difference would be that this is happening now, rather than being a hypothetical. One can dislike both, but not mentioning a hypothetical surely doesn't negate the dislike of the actual.

Also, it is of short duration now, but that will surely change as some battery life improves over time.

I can totally see this morphing into some Blade Runner/ Cyberpunk dystopia where these "displays" fill the city skies with lady-silhouettes and roulette machines.

Maybe that's ok if it's just a (logical?) upgrade to neon signs, but I'm undecided.

It's the commenting on something before it happens that can help prevent it from happening. Commenting about it after it happens is the worthless effort.

> Commenting about it after it happens is the worthless effort.

Well that's a dense take. So candy crush has one drone ad and we are supposed to give up on preventing drone ads in the future?

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