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?

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      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.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 month 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.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    13·
    1 month ago

    I take ads as a personal attack on my psyche. I turn my toothpaste around so I’m not looking at the logo. I pirate any shows I want to watch, and I use uBlock Origin in my browser.

  • LANIK2000@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    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
      2·
      1 month ago

      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?

        • jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month 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.

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • Lauchs@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 month 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.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 month ago

      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.

  • Camzing@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 month ago

    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.