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?

  • @hightrix
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    Mute ads in live sports. Absolutely.

    Avoid ads in all other formats.

  • wia
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    What are ads?

    I haven’t had an ad in my house or on my devices in like 15years. I block all ads.

    When I go elsewhere or out and see an ad I literally get confused for a second before I remember people still let them play.

    Don’t suffer through ads friend.

  • @[email protected]
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    One of the best things I did was raise my kids ad-free for the first 5 or 6 years of their lives. The first time they saw ads, they were baffled about what they were, then they were baffled why people would put up with them.

  • @[email protected]
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    1214 hours ago

    Ads? Hmm. No, now that you mention it. I must be doing it wrong, because I never see ads.

    🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

  • @Professorozone
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    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.

  • @Smokeydope
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    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.

  • /home/pineapplelover
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    I find ads on tv to actually be entertaining. Like sometimes even cinematic masterpieces. Last time I watched tv was Olympic games so I don’t watch tv all too often anyway.

  • @Camzing
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    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.

  • FiveMacs
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    I stopped watching ‘tv’ because of ads. No way will I pay for ads or be subjected to them as best I can.

    • @[email protected]
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      416 hours ago

      This is the way.

      Finding other ways to get your media that doesn’t blast you with ads.

      Or if it always blasts you with ads, find a way to block them.

      Don’t let the terrorists win.

  • @Saltarello
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    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

    • @[email protected]
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      OP was asking about Normal people.

      Of course non-normals ad block.

      But I’ve seen my parents use their phone and ignore the 60% of ads take that over the screen.

    • SkaveRat
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      same. something like 17 years here.

      Caught some TV a couple months ago at my moms place, and was horrified about the amount of ad breaks and length. I don’t know how anyone can tolerate this

      • @zoostation
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        With a DVR you haven’t had to watch a commercial on TV/cable in over 20 years. Streaming is bringing unskippable ads and surveillance. The internet is making things worse, not better.

        • @[email protected]
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          Streaming is bringing unskippable ads and surveillance.

          Torrents bring neither and are higher quality and more user friendly.

          The internet is making things worse, not better.

          No, it’s not. Before the Internet you could only watch what was on, when it was on.

          Now you can torrent anything you want to watch, whenever you want to watch it, and in much higher quality than TV used to be. And, again, without ads, which TV has always been riddled with.

          That’s infinitely better, on multiple metrics.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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      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.

  • @Dasus
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    I stopped watching TV some 15 years ago or smth.

  • @LANIK2000
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    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.

  • @corvuscache
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    I always mute and go off to do something else (meaning, I’m not watching, either). One of my worst hells was when I had to take care of my MIL for 2 months last year and while she watches YouTube non-stop, she does it with all the ads. I hadn’t realized how bad the ads there actually are these days. I almost didn’t make it.