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?
when an ad is on I take the time to stand up and do whatever small tasks I have to
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.
No, I never muted them. How else are you supposed to know when the series continues?
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.
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.
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.
I use a TV and pi connected to my 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.
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
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.
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
If its a State Farm ad, its definitely getting muted.
I don’t watch TV.
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.
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.
Ha. Mute point
A mute point or a moot point? You have (accidentally?) made a language pun there.
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 ;)
Do you watch any streaming services or do you mean zero tv, no shows, nothing?
Do you watch any streaming services or do you mean zero tv, no shows, nothing?
We do, from time to time. We will subscribe for a month to such or such streaming and watch the few content we’re interested in. Most of the time, though, there isn’t that many stuff we really want to watch. And if you’re wondering, we watch content on simple computer screen (hooked to a Linux machine) that has nothing ‘smart’ in it — it just displays pixels.
Note that a few years ago, when they all started appearing, we were subscribed to quite a few services and that was fun, at the beginning. Alas, we quickly grew tired of always being fed the same kind of politically correct, highly sanitised, and very… formatted type of content. Like with books, my spouse and I both enjoy challenging content (which includes being confronted to things and thoughts we will deeply disagree with). Don’t get me wrong, there are a few very high quality content that is streamed, just not enough to our taste for us to be willing to pay the always more expensive monthly fee they’re asking for it.
That said, we own a large DVD collection, which we prefer to streaming because:
- We paid for them once, some 20+ years ago. No lifetime rent.
- In the same logic: nowadays used DVDs are dirt cheap and one could easily build their dream library for almost nothing.
- We’re not tracked while watching them.
- We’re free to watch whatever we want. It doesn’t matter if it is trendy or not, if it’s popular or not, if it’s decades or a century old. We own it? We can watch it.
- Last but not least, there is no one that can come at our place to modify the DVDs we own. Be it to remove some content that would be considered unacceptable today (or tomorrow), to change or to add something in it, or even to delete the whole DVD. We paid for that plastic disc, we legally own it. Even if the almighty Sony, Warner, HBO, Universal or Whomever changed their mind and wanted to take it back, they can’t. Unlike what we have already seen happening more than once with digital content being modified or deleted, or less dramatically but as efficiently as far as censoring goes ‘not being available anymore’.
This is also why I quit reading ebooks almost completely, to read printed books again. I don’t want anyone to be able to remotely edit or delete a book from my bookshelves (Hi Amazon, please go kindly sit your naked ass on some cactus), nor to feel entitled to look over my shoulder while I’m reading so they could ‘data mine’ my reading habits.
Wooops, sorry for this lengthy and ‘ranty’ reply. Hope you won’t mind ;)
I agree with a lot of what you said. It’s why I buy my disks. Can’t be deleted.
I am going to disagree with one item. You say you don’t have a tv. The screen you use to display the image is effectively a tv. So in essence you still have one. You just don’t have cable tv or an aerial antenna. You even use the streaming services from time to time.
But otherwise yeah I definitely understand where you are coming from.
I have a TV but don’t have cable, completely replaced normal TV with yt, Netflix, and anime. I use brave browser so I don’t get ads
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.
Don’t know what service you go through or where, buty parents have had the unfortunate pleasure of recording some things (don’t remember what because I don’t pay attention to the TV often anymore of I can help it) through Xfinity and have fast forwarding through the small commercial breaks feature disabled.
I bought a tivo have had a couple through the years. They (spectrum and the tv station) can’t control what I fast forward through.
You’re not a freak, they’re something that you don’t wanna pay attention to but they’re literally made to grab your attention, so it drives you crazy. Nothing wrong with muting them
Commercial breaks wouldn’t drive me so crazy if every third ad wasn’t for a medication with legitimately gruesome side effects
