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It will be hard to beat any AR level ad filtering. Ultimately AI will make ad avoidance easier rather than harder.

Their AI agents will be stronger than yours. They'll watch you 24/7 and make sure you're not doing that – verify there are no non-approved gadgets in front of your eyes; verify that there are no visible analog-gap-defeating tools anywhere in your physical proximity. Nothing will escape the machine's notice: no detail too small or subtle for a bored yottaflop God with nothing in the world to do but watch you.

You'll be free to opt out, though most of the internet will be unusable without Environment Integrity.

I don't understand what AR has to do with this

Analog gap. An AR headset that classifies ads in its field of view and filters them in real-time. Adversary model being, the evil Googleborg fully control your web browser and the locked OS it's running on – but you still control the gap between the display screen and your eyeballs.

AR?

Augmented Reality? The semi-real-world version of VR?

Augmented reality

The grandparent likely means Augmented Reality; they may be imagining a strange world where you wear glasses that filter ads out of your vision, and yet those ads are on a computer screen you view rather than right there in the headset being projected onto your eyes.

Shut up and take my money

AR seems like a gimmick/fad. I think we’re more likely to see eyeball scanning ads/AI ala Minority Report instead.

Hello, Mr. Yakamoto! Welcome back to The Gap…

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