Yeah sorry not every aspect of my life needs to have advertisements trying to ram themselves down my throat.
Let me just enjoy something without interrupting me every 5-10 minutes.
Also idk about you but commercials on TV were just as infuriating to deal with
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I understood that reference meme.
The 90s ads gave me time to use the bathroom and get snacks in an era where shows could not be paused. I took advantage of that time.
Now it’s too short to do anything, or I need to press a button to end the commercial after 5 seconds, requiring my attention.
Not to mention that the 5 seconds countdown timer is bullshit. In actuality, the timer appears after about a second of playing through the ad, then locks at 5 seconds for about a second and a half, then slowly counts down to 1 where it locks for a second and a half again, and finally gives you the option to skip the ad. I’d wager it’s closer to 7 or 8 seconds per “5 second” ad.
MythTV had commercial skip.
I didn’t have a choice back then. Now that I do, fuck ads!
Also, no one had a happy face watching same ads for 150th time.
Especially the very low quality local ads that ran 3x as often as any others.
I curse the day when they realized negative marketing works as equally or better. At that point we started getting dumb ads which you remembered because they were so dumb.
Yeah, it was more like “wait until the boring commercials are done” because there was no other option.
Yup.
Honestly. I used to watch my dad have like 4 channels he could switch between so he didn’t have to do commercials. I used to think that was weird, and indicative of some poor character traits. I was a judgemental little shit.
Now this meme is me. I have become my father.
I sometimes attempt to do that with Pluto TV, but they really enforce putting ads at the same time in almost all the channels.
And you can’t do this anymore, at least with broadcast TV. My local diner as a bunch of TV’s on about the place, all tuned to the local Fox, CBS, NBC, etc. affiliates so you have the rare opportunity to see them all at once. They’re all timed so their commercial breaks coincide with one another. It’s down to the split second – every channel goes to commercial at the same time, for the same length of time. It has to be intentional.
That was mostly the case in the 90s as well. On the 30m mark, everything was wrapping up / starting at the same time. In the middle, you might have 30-90 seconds of a show on another channel that was throwing to commercial at a slightly different time.
This is why TBS always started programs at five past the half hour. When the program was finished you would have missed the first five minutes of any program on another network thus encouraging you to stay tuned to TBS .
Turns out nobody wants to watch commercials. The cycle repeats itself.
Used to have it down to a science. 03 Global > 25 YTV > 28 Fox > 32 Spike TV > 44 Comedy Network > 45 Teletoon > 47 TBS > 50 Space
I never had to see a commercial
I did the same thing and I thought it’s pretty normal. You can tell your 90s self that if it makes them feel good
I had a TV with picture-in-picture. That was a great feature for avoiding commercials.
You need uBlock origin!
Now Youtube is doing unskippable 30 second commercials. I turn the sound off, but it’s still very f#cking annoying. We’re not bombarded enough with ads every time we use our computer? I’m 65 now, and I’ve yet to see any commercial that ever made me want to buy the product advertised.
On phone: Newpipe
Desktop: Freetube
Also make sure to use uBlock Origin and Firefox.
And it seems to be every 3 minutes or so!? It’s insane to the point that finding an ad-free version for my NVIDIA Shield is a top priority this week.
It drives me nuts how often Youtube videos are interrupted by ads - for things I couldn’t care less about. And I finally gave in and upped my subscription to Netflix to the ad-free version even though it’s more expensive - not being bombarded by ads is SO worth it - so I say, go for it with the NVIDIA Shield ad-free version - we all have a duty to “shield” ourselves from this nonstop barrage of advertising!
I use Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid for all of my streaming needs, no need for any of the subscriptions. For YouTube, I’ll use whatever the current cracked version is–I believe there are/were several, but I’m not up-to-date on what’s out right now.
I have to use the version saddled with my android TV - I don’t watch Youtube on my computer, so I’m not sure I have any option but to use the ad-riddled version. Heavy sigh!
SmartTubeNext
“You want to watch this 10 second meme video? Please watch this 30 second ad first.”
Funnier still is when you’re looking up movie/TV/game trailers, which are already just ads for that product, and you have to watch another ad first.
I was in the middle of watching an old Tales from the Crypt episode last night and at the most climactic part, suddenly a 5 second commercial for Maxipads came on and completely ruined the experience. Why, why, why oh LORD why!!!
Ain’t nobody got… Wait, I closed it out of reflex… yes that was a good decision.
It’s hard to retain patience when literally everything everywhere all the time constantly tries to shovel ads down your throat
I wonder if YouTube has metrics on how often people click the skip button while it’s not enabled yet. I hope I never find out my statistics…
mouse and click tracking could very well be part of the bazillion scripts yt loads.
That’s like some StarCraft APM spamming
I firmly believe that this is because the way we use computers and cellphones and also the way the ads are used, I still watch commercials in TV without a problem, but there is commercial max 20 to 20 minutes (I’m looking bad to you MLB) and I also not so active choosing what to watch so I’m more relaxed. On youtube, If you watch sometimes 4-5 minutes video you get 20 seconds ads, in 10 minutes you have more cause they put ads in between.
Another factor is the quality of the ads, the number of right wing political ads, dumb ads or ads from companies that I hate from my soul is immense, In TV I usually find ads creative and sometimes I like to watch (yeah, I said that) when is not too spammed, just for the art lol.
I still watch commercials in TV without a problem
Not me. I cut the cord years ago, and whenever I go visit my parents who still have cable, I literally only last one commercial break or so before I can’t stand it and quit watching.
We live in an era of instant gratification so any form of delay is intolerable.
But also? Three to six minutes of commercials is a snack or a piss break or even goofing off on your phone/gameboy/whatever. 30 seconds (or 4 to skip) really is nothing and you barely have time to even meaningfully look away.
Sorry I meant to reply to the post not your comment
4 second my ass. You could either get multiple ads or even unskippable one. Btw, did you enjoy having to push a button every few minutes instead of be free to do anything else?
Somehow I feel like tv commercials are more tolerable than the ones you get in the internet and games.
Also: use https://piped.video/ for watching youtube videos without ads. And no, that isn’t a porn site domain even if it sounds like one.That’s because TV commercials were usually well made, or for stuff you might need. For the stuff you didnt need, it was entertaining. (You remember the IBM TV ads in the 90s?) YouTube ads are for overpriced junk and dropshipping (raycon earbuds) when it’s not get rich quick scams.
You forgot dodgy videos that YouTube would nuke a creators channel without a second thought otherwise
And the sensibilities of those advertisers dictate what creators are allowed to create without getting demonitized. I miss old YouTube. It felt so much more organic.
