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Who hates commercials?

Hate em?

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cytg111

cytg111

Lifer
I mean I've tolerated them pre covid, but it seems to me they're in overdrive now without ads. Youtube in particular, multiple ads, longer non cancel-able ads, repeat ads if you pause something...
I am getting allergic to ads.
Anyone else?
They're on the rise yes?
 
The only time I see ads are when I'm at my mother's house, and she has her stupid tv on(the stupid tv's always on :^S ). Otherwise, aside from crap that gets delivered from the post office, I live an ad free life
 
lxskllr said:
The only time I see ads are when I'm at my mother's house, and she has her stupid tv on(the stupid tv's always on :^S ). Otherwise, aside from crap that gets delivered from the post office, I live an ad free life
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So. You dont tube?
 
They have gotten way too intrusive. I didn't use to use ad blockers etc... but as they have gotten overwhelming, I decided to start using one. I think a lot of it is /w DVR's less people are viewing ads there and overall TV viewership is down, as such, they have shifted to online ads more and more. What I hate is the paywall sites /w their crazy high costs. I mean $10 for a local newspaper digital site, you are kidding me?
 
Not really. I watch the occasional video, but I'm not a big fan of videos. I don't see any ads. Dunno if that's due to my adblocker, or types of videos I watch
 
I use Sling to stream live TV. They give me like 100 hrs to record. So I record everything live I want to see so I can zip through the commercials. The cool thing is that I can wait about 15 or 20 minutes for the program to begin recording and then I can start to stream the program. This allows me to zip through the commercials and if I want to go to the bathroom or whatever, I can allow them to run. You can zip forward in chunks of 30 seconds, so I have gotten pretty good at clicking 4 or 5 times to blow through the adds since most are in 30 second chunks. It also allows me to go back 10 seconds at a time if I have over clicked. I wouldn't mind commercials but they run the same commercial 5 or 6 times during a 1 hour show, yeah, no thanks.
 
GrumpyMan said:
I use Sling to stream live TV. They give me like 100 hrs to record. So I record everything live I want to see so I can zip through the commercials. The cool thing is that I can wait about 15 or 20 minutes for the program to begin recording and then I can start to stream the program. This allows me to zip through the commercials and if I want to go to the bathroom or whatever, I can allow them to run. I wouldn't mind commercials but they run the same commercial 5 or 6 times during a 1 hour show, yeah, no thanks.
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That, I didn't know.:beermug:
 
highland145 said:
That, I didn't know.:beermug:
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I did edit my post to add content. That feature doesn't work on all shows, I would say it works on 80% of them. But I'm more than willing to watch something else and then watch the recorded show after. I love Lilly on the AT&T commercials, but not 5 times on the same show. Maybe that's a Sling thing, but whatever. If I wait 20 mins. for the show to start, by the end of the hour by skipping commercials I have usually caught up to the actual end time that show should have, if you know what I mean.
 
[DHT]Osiris said:
Hate. As much as possible, I do not buy products that advertise.
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You don't buy/use Google/Apple/Amazon/Walmart/tide/McD/all car mft(almost)?

I don't mind ad on TV or radio - well many's life line depends on it - but I hate YT ad, don't tube much but hating it.
 
My wife is a weirdo who likes TV adverts.

She even goes out of the way to watch 'special' TV adverts, such as a special Christmas advert by say John Lewis or Sainsburys. She'll even try to make me watch these adverts even though she knows I hate adverts.

She hates YouTube adverts, which is odd because she almost exclusively watches YouTube on her phone with the app (as opposed to her desktop PC which has an ad blocker installed).
 
Denly said:
You don't buy/use Google/Apple/Amazon/Walmart/tide/McD/all car mft(almost)?

I don't mind ad on TV or radio - well many's life line depends on it - but I hate YT ad, don't tube much but hating it.
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Handmedown phones from my GF when she gets upgraded pixel phones. No apple products in my household. I buy things from Amazon, but they don't really 'advertise' perse in the way others do, as they don't have to. I don't care about a company advertising their own products on their own page, since I'm clearly there to buy their product. Having said that, I do own a kindle.

I don't shop at Walmart unless there's absolutely nothing else and I absolutely need what they have. Tide? No, I don't buy tide things. No, I don't buy mcdonalds, and the two cars I have are older than a decade? I have to own a vehicle where I live though. Vehicles would be one of those 'as much as possible' products.
 
Commercials in of themselves are not so bad, but the issue is when they are excessive. They'll take 20 minutes of programming and stretch it over an hour because there's so many commercials.

Same with web advertising. It was not that bad before but then it got bad as soon as popups became a thing and it just got worse from there. These ad companies killed themselves because they forced ad blockers to be pretty much required just to use the internet.
 
lxskllr said:
The only time I see ads are when I'm at my mother's house, and she has her stupid tv on(the stupid tv's always on :^S ). Otherwise, aside from crap that gets delivered from the post office, I live an ad free life
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The only time I encounter ads is when I watch live sports or occasionally on my phone ... otherwise all blocked.

Ans yes I DESPISE ads ... the day I can't filter them out on Youtube/others is the last day I ever use that particular service.
 
balloonshark said:
I think I remember hearing that utube was going to show a ton of ads in order to force people to pay for their ad free service.

Perhaps one of these apps will help with the utube ads.

troypoint.com

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I find the newest version of the Adblock plus browser extension blocks 90% of Youtube ads in Chrome.
 
Captante said:
I find the newest version of the Adblock plus browser extension blocks 90% of Youtube ads in Chrome.
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To be honest most of my utube watching happens on my nvidia shield and I see tons of ads. I can't recall if I have an ad blocker installed or not.

I do have ublock origin installed in firefox on my PC but the only time I watch a video on PC is so I can post a link on a forum. I did just try a nfl video and didn't see any ads at the beginning of the video and I believe I see the ads on the shield.
 
I'm not that bothered in general, probably due to having gotten so accustomed to them. Probably need to specify exactly what form of media you are talking about though. I actually find (or used to, when I had a TV) some TV ads quite clever or witty.

Seemed especially the case for mid-market alcohol brands (always thought those Carling Black Label and Heineken adverts were genuinely amusing, for example). Which probably just indicates I'm in the target demographic for those brands. The low-end brands always seemed to have advertising that struck me as moronic or humour for thugs (WKD vodka, for example), while the high-end ones seemed aimed at pretentious upper-middle-class snobs who want to be flattered that they are 'sophisticated'.

Really seems as if it's easy to see how cynical and dishonest adverts are when they are aimed at a demographic that you aren't part of, and it's much harder to notice that when they are accurately targeted at you.

Ads on websites are a pain for simple practical reasons - either obstructing the thing I'm actually trying to read, or autoplaying videos with sound, or serving up malware, or just advertising things I have no interest in or am actively offended by (e.g. clothing with alt-right slogans on it).
 
Anybody remember when companies sponsored programs? There were almost no commercials, although there were some product placement spots within the show, or the host would do a quick spoken spot.
 
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