• cmeu
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    8 hours ago

    I watch tons of Netflix - but yesterday I came close to cancelling it outright.

    They had the home run Derby presented live… I missed the start of it by about 4 hours.

    I thought wow ok now they have live sports events? Let me try this out.

    I started it from the beginning and after the dry and tedious opening with the hosts, decided I want to fast forward past this and get to some action.

    That’s when I noticed the yellow markers on the playback timeline. On a whim, I FFd just past it - sure enough, 3 minutes of unskippable ads.

    I backed out immediately and haven’t watched anything on there since.

    I remember when their whole model was that I paid monthly so I didn’t have to watch ads. Prime did this, they all do it now.

    Humanity is really circling the drain…