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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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

Ain't no ads on Jellyfin.

[–] Saltarello@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Never directly watch any ads. We record everything on HTPC (NextPVR), ads are cut before the recordings get thrown into Jellyfin. Ads in general simply dont happen in our household

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[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My TV lets me pause live TV, so I pause, leave the room for a bit, come back and fast forward through the ads.

[–] jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

DVRs are great. I don't think they're really a thing much anymore, I guess because of the declining popularity of FTA TV. Is this a feature that's built in to your TV or is it a separate DVR? How long have you had it?

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not American. I don't know what those terms mean. I just have a skybox.

[–] jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm from Australia, I haven't seen them for a long time but around the mid 2000s to early 2010s we had products that were like set-top boxes that were variously referred to as PVRs (personal video recorder) and DVRs (digital video recorder). They had digital TV tuners in them and hard drives and would prebuffer paused TV up to a set amount of time allowing you to skip through ads and pause a show as you describe and they usually had more than one TV tuner in them so you could go through the Electronic Program Guide menu and set it to record another show while you watched or recorded a different one. My parents had one and it was great. I guess growing up with Free to Air TV, the novelty and unusualness of consuming media this way and not having to miss the show to get up for tea or not having to suffer the ads and just hitting fast forward still resonates with me even though now the idea of having to watch stuff on a schedule is becoming a weird and alien limitation that shouldn't be there in the first place. Ironically though now you'd have a tougher time evading the ads in some contexts despite watching almost whatever you want whenever you want.

Jellyfin has a built in DVR. It works with HD Homerun tuners.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

I have not put myself in a position to be forced to watch ads in a very long time. Even when I had normal TV service I was recording shows to a computer that would identify the commercials to automatically skip them when I watched a show. But I guess I'm not anywhere near normal in that regard.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

I don't watch TV.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I use a TV and pi connected to my server thus no ads but what gets me is radio ads in cars such as a taxi or in the barbershop, I hate them, they're obnoxious.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And restaurants! That makes me quite angry - if a restaurant forces me to listen to ads while waiting for food, I may not really come next time.

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago

Restaurants playing radio are the worst... Once you're at your table and you realize you will hear ads the whole time it's already too late

[–] Cycadophyta@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

Agreed. I'm in the UK and exclusively listen to the BBC radio stations which have no ads. It always annoys me when colleagues have other radio stations on with ads

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 7 points 1 day ago

i have not owned a television since I was a child and came to develop my quirky ad-reviling character trait

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

That's one of the reasons I cut the cord.

And unsubscribed from Netflix/Prime when they started asking for more money for ads.

And freak out whenever the weird hacky fix from the depths of Lemmy that kills youtube ads stops working for a day.

Ads are the goddamn worse, Carpenter had them dead to rights in They Live.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I made an Arduino IR cloner, took it to the barbershop and when nobody was looking copied the mute button's code so I now have a little device to silence the long Retro Music Television ad breaks I would otherwise have to endure. I don't really go anywhere with TVs otherwise.

[–] williams_482@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

For the few cases I watch live TV over the antenna, I will either lower the volume or leave it be. Muting to silence is usually too jarring but the same could be said about the ad itself

[–] MdRuckus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I stream everything and pay for ad free services. I hate ads.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I don't watch many things that have commercials. Only if I really want to see something and nothing else is more convenient or it's just for background noise while working on a project.

But since so many streaming sites let the ads be super loud compared to the content, yes, I usually mute it a couple of seconds ahead of time to avoid the jump scare.

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

My wife normally mutes them, but I generally don't care enough to pick up the remote and push the mute button. I just tune them out and use it as a chance to grab a snack or go to the bathroom, or just check stuff on my phone.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When i run into ads on Twitch (rare) i mute the stream and leave the tab.
I usually only make it through a couple runs of ads before bailing on the stream.

[–] Crampi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Firefox + Alternate Player for Twitch = no ads

If its a State Farm ad, its definitely getting muted.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

record everything. skip the commercials.

the need for having them in an ad supported environment is understood. but it's long since gotten out of hand as to how many there are. 8-10 minutes per hour when i was a kid to 20-22+ per hour now.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't watch television in a way that exposes me to commercials. Same with YouTube and Spotify.

I fast forward through ads during podcasts assuming my hands are free enough to do so, but will listen through them if I'm driving. I don't absorb much from them, I'd be hard pressed to recall any I heard even within the last hour. I think I've been hearing one on repeat lately about subscribing to a service to tell you what services you're subscribed to; couldn't tell you the name of the company though.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

YouTube you can skip ads with uBlock origin for the normal kind and sponserblock for the embed "ad read" kind the youtuber does.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I mute them habitually and very regularly wish muting was kept as a metric so "they" could know just how much I truly loathe them.

[–] Sakychu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

No, I never muted them. How else are you supposed to know when the series continues?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works -3 points 23 hours ago

"Normal people" sit all the way through ads and are having receptacles installed in their carotid arteries for Amazon to pipe petrochemical runoff directly into their blood-brain barriers.

Me? I don't own a working television, I haven't turned on a radio in years, and all of my digital devices run a FOSS operating system I installed on them with layers of ad blockers.

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

when an ad is on I take the time to stand up and do whatever small tasks I have to

You're in good company here.

I expect most people who decide to watch cable or a comparable streaming service would watch ads with the volume on. A lot of people grew up with cable and constant ads and don't see a problem with it.

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I don't watch cable TV. I get free Disney plus which includes ads. For these I do in fact mute them. I find ads annoying.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Use a DNS adblocker on your router and mobile network. 10x easier than it sounds. I haven't seen an ad on my screen that I didn't want in years.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

I watch regular tv so little, it mostly doesn't happen. We used to DVR a show, but it's been off the air for a while now (or my settings broke when I moved), and fast-forwarded through them. Now, it's generally only very rarely watching the news and I suppose I let them play.

Oh yea, I mute that shit before they start.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When I was a kid my father would always mute the ads, which was annoying to me because the images still demanded my attention and it was frustrating not knowing what they said. Now I don't watch TV and know how to use adblockers so it's a mute point.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

A mute point or a moot point? You have (accidentally?) made a language pun there.

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I record everything I watch. Record now and watch later. Then I fast forward through the commercials. If something seems interesting I'll go back and actually watch it.

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[–] DSMx39@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’d have to pay closer attention to the ads if I wanted to mute them at the right times. My mother in law does the mute thing and either forgets to unmute it until halfway through the scene or gives the silent ads her undivided attention.

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