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Do normal people mute the ads or just let the television keep going? (lemmy.world)

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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?

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[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 128 points 1 month ago

I solved this problem by having not watched cable television in like ten years.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 1 month 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

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 month ago

Frog in the pot, man. It's crazy what people put up with. Same with rawdogging YouTube

[-] zoostation@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month 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 7 points 1 month 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.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I don't watch it, but I definitely second hand consume it because my parents still watch cable. I don't really have a choice either since most every night I'm helping cook dinner while my dad watches his nightly reruns of MASH and Emergency (unless it's something else for a change). The ads aren't extremely unbearable because they're aimed at middle-aged to elderly people like my dad, but I don't care for them.

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