Crowno Invisible License Plate Spray

Our Take

Crowno's short pitches an 'invisible' spray that supposedly blinds cameras while your plate looks normal to a cop's eyeball. We're not chemists, but we know skepticism when we see it: license plate readers like Flock's use infrared flash and specific wavelengths, so a spray that fools the human eye but not a camera sensor is a tall claim, and one that's been made before by dozens of coatings and covers that got their sellers cited. Most states already ban anything that obscures a plate from any detection device, camera included, so 'legally approved' in an ad script deserves major side-eye.

The bigger issue is what this ad reveals about public appetite: people are desperate enough to spray mystery liquid on their cars because they know they're being watched constantly, not just at speed traps but by thousands of Flock Safety cameras logging every plate that passes, whether you've done anything wrong or not. Gadgets and gimmicks won't fix that. What actually works is knowing where these cameras are, pushing back at city council meetings, and demanding transparency and deletion policies from your local police department.

Credit to CROWNO for the attention-grabbing content, but don't buy your way out of surveillance with a bottle. Check our camera map to see what's tracking you in your area, and hit take action for real ways to push back on ALPR expansion.