I diligently mute them, I’m a freak I cannot stand them. But from the nature of many people’s complaints about ads, it seems like they listen to them and want to retain the words they’ve said?

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
    551·
    6 days ago

    same. something like 17 years here.

    Caught some TV a couple months ago at my moms place, and was horrified about the amount of ad breaks and length. I don’t know how anyone can tolerate this

    • zoostation@lemmy.world
      111·
      6 days ago

      With a DVR you haven’t had to watch a commercial on TV/cable in over 20 years. Streaming is bringing unskippable ads and surveillance. The internet is making things worse, not better.

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
        71·
        5 days ago

        Streaming is bringing unskippable ads and surveillance.

        Torrents bring neither and are higher quality and more user friendly.

        The internet is making things worse, not better.

        No, it’s not. Before the Internet you could only watch what was on, when it was on.

        Now you can torrent anything you want to watch, whenever you want to watch it, and in much higher quality than TV used to be. And, again, without ads, which TV has always been riddled with.

        That’s infinitely better, on multiple metrics.