When I was a kid I would change the channel until commercials were over
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Why you askin Lemmy what normal people do?!
Lol, the fuck is an ad???
I either pay for no ads, or sail the high seas
Fucks ads
I haven't seen an add in years, but I would mute or do something else like a regular commercial break. You know, snack, maybe bathroom, check my phone, etc.
I can't stand ads. It's even worse on TV when they yell them at you. So I actually stopped watching TV in 2009 because I couldn't stop the ads, and I was tired to have the TV trying to convince me to buy a car every 15 minutes.
If I want to watch something that was on TV, I download it from... * the internet *.
My parents still watch TV and just let the ads blast in the background, and we need to yell over them to talk. I hate it. Then they're like "oh it's just like in the ad". I don't know how they can tolerate this. I did when I was younger but when I realized that the TV was trying to sell me twice a car in 15 minutes, or about 8 times an hour, I couldn't help but notice and it's just really annoying.
Marketers: "So what you're saying is, the problem is that the ad was not personally relevant to you??? Can we collect more of your personal data to give you ads based on who we think you are?" skin cream
Ads are my chance to get up, make a snack, come back and find that along with the ads I've missed the next 5 minutes of my show
I mute them, look away, or go to another room. Can't let the bastards win..
I mute ads when I can’t ship them and I’m not walking away to get something. They’re so loud. 🔇
Team mute all the way.
BTW I hate using Apple TV.
I ignore them. I don't really watch TV channels nowadays, both shows and ads are just background noises to me.
My home is off the grid
I mute and change channels. Bout half of them have the same ads on at the same time though
What are ads?
I haven't had an ad in my house or on my devices in like 15years. I block all ads.
When I go elsewhere or out and see an ad I literally get confused for a second before I remember people still let them play.
Don't suffer through ads friend.
People think i'm crazy when i tell them that. I think it's crazy to get ass blasted by ads. The only time i see an ad is when i'm at someone's home and the tv is running. I'm almost mesmerized by it because of how bad and frequent they appear.
Mute ads in live sports. Absolutely.
Avoid ads in all other formats.
I recently tried to watch sports. It was fun but disgusting. The biggest racket I've ever seen. $80/month to watch Baseball?! $17,000 for World Series tickets?!
I always thought not wanting to watch sports was a choice. Apparently you can only watch sports if you're a fucking millionaire.
One of the best things I did was raise my kids ad-free for the first 5 or 6 years of their lives. The first time they saw ads, they were baffled about what they were, then they were baffled why people would put up with them.
Ads? Hmm. No, now that you mention it. I must be doing it wrong, because I never see ads.
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I have no idea what normal people do, but I avoid ads at all costs. Sometimes I pay premium, sometimes I just don't watch.
Ads aren't a thing in my life. On the off day I have to visit someone who lives with ads and suffer through one or two I tough it out, or look at my phone, or do something different.
I don't watch live TV. I dont pay for any subscription services except phone service and internet data. I watch YouTube content that has the ads stripped out. I download youtube videos that get often rewatched to hard drive. For movies I buy DVD that can have the drm stripped out.
I play good video games preferably drm free (steam is the one service I can't really give up easy, but it has offline mode and the deck so praise gaben!). I read e-books that are drm free. I have a mp3 player downloaded with all my music drm free.
The better question is, why are you willing to live with ads at all? Assuming you are in control of your living situation and have the power change whats shown on tv or played through speakers.
Why would you tolerate being constantly bombarded with manipulative messaging by companies, political canpaigns, and all the other powerful groups who want to affect he masses for their benefit?
Why is it so hard just say no? To give up the forms of toxic entertainment delivery? Why can't you sacrifice ease and convinence and familiarity to regain some control overhow your attention is spent during free time?
If you like something, buy it and really take the steps to own it physically.
Ads?
I solved this problem by having not watched cable television in like ten years.
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
Frog in the pot, man. It's crazy what people put up with. Same with rawdogging YouTube
Has anyone watched an NHL game lately. They got annoying moving ads on the boards. Hard to concentrate on the puck with whirling ads in the background. Someone needs to use AI to counter thier AI. It's enough for me to stop watching. And I mute ads of course.
Haven't those ads always been there?
No. There were static sponsors on the boards. Now they do injection in live broadcasts on the boards with actual ads that move.
Yeah just watched some highlights of ducks and golden knights, that game had static ads. I think I was remembering watching Olympics soccer, I think those had moving ads
I just started watching again this year.
I stopped watching TV some 15 years ago or smth.
Visit a house where they have the tv on all the time. Commercials and everything. It's harsh.
I jolly roger everything. No commercials.
I find ads on tv to actually be entertaining. Like sometimes even cinematic masterpieces. Last time I watched tv was Olympic games so I don't watch tv all too often anyway.
I found a cool way of ad-blocking back when I watched TV. Probably does not work anymore, and relies on Teletext page 888 (closed captions, the number varies by country) not being updated during ads.
- Mute
- Switch to another channel and back to clear Teletext cache
- Turn on fullscreen Teletext, any page (I like the 89x test patterns)
- Type "888" as the page you want to go to
- The TV will now wait for 888 to be broadcast, which only happens after ads and trailers
- The program is now running with captions. Disable Teletext and unmute if you want sound instead.
I stopped watching 'tv' because of ads. No way will I pay for ads or be subjected to them as best I can.
This is the way.
Finding other ways to get your media that doesn't blast you with ads.
Or if it always blasts you with ads, find a way to block them.
Don't let the terrorists win.
I don't watch shit with adds lol. I just recently learned that in the US Netflix, Amazon Prime and the such offer paid subscriptions that still show adds. Like what the actual fuck? Just pirate at that point, the bad sites have an equal share of adds and the good ones have none, it's a much better experience.
I always mute and go off to do something else (meaning, I'm not watching, either). One of my worst hells was when I had to take care of my MIL for 2 months last year and while she watches YouTube non-stop, she does it with all the ads. I hadn't realized how bad the ads there actually are these days. I almost didn't make it.
No TV, no ads. Simple.
My spouse and I have not been forced to watch a TV-ad since the late 90S. Since the day we got rid of our TV once and for all, when we realized the were expecting us to pay good money to buy a TV set and then still have to watch their ads, and more and more of them? Not the best deal. So thx, but no. 25 years later, we still have to regret it once ;)