For emergency it's probably way simpler to just make a small hole with your hand (like the diver "OK" sign but tighter) and look through that.

A pinhole camera doesn't focus light. Only lenses can focus light. The reason why looking through a small hole makes the image sharper is exactly because that basically prevents the lens in your eye to "misdirect" light that's coming in from the side.

But there is a reason why our eyes are not pin hole cameras. The amount of light that hits your retina is pretty low when looking through a pin-hole so that actually only works on bright sunny days.

Have they announced a price yet?

Wow didn't now that. I'm surprised I never heard of it, but I will definitely give it a try.

Is it reliable? Ad-blocking is a cat and mouse game and to actually have a useable ad-blocker it needs to be well maintained over a long period of time (for example like ublock origin).

Their concept looks nice, but they are researchers and I'm a bit afraid that they just drop that, write a paper about it and that's it. If there is no constant maintenance this will likely stop blocking YouTube Ads once Google deploys the next changes.

Update: checked the repo and it's actually a fork of ublock origin, so it should (for now) be pretty similar, but still they would have to keep maintaining that.

To be fair that's actually really hard once you are dead.

Wealthiest country on earth

🤣 It's like putting one leg in boiling hot water, the other one in liquid nitrogen and calling it room temperature.

The US is a third world country with some very rich people.

the entire bottom half of humanity

So about 4 billion people

Holy shit. And that's legal in Germany? What about "never again"?

That Deadpool is trapped inside that gamer chair?

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Humans are also "pattern recognition engines". That's why optical illusions and similar completely mess with our brains. There are patterns that we perceive as moving/rotating even though the pattern is completely stationary.

But nobody would claim that you can't trust your eyes in general just because optical illusions exist.