Yes, this instance is definitely the wrong place to ask, but maybe I'll be surprised.

I hate commercial ads. I consider them intolerable and violating. I'm far from alone in this perspective (see: famous Banksy quote, and subvertising + related cultures). It's one of the rawest forms of exploitative manipulation.

So surely you can understand my confusion whenever I see people just watching ads on their phone until they finish, or even watching ads on television until their show starts again. Come on, just do something else for 4 minutes (most channels run two 4 minute segments per half hour, that why your downloaded TV episodes are 22 minutes each instead of 30)

Is there a more meaningful answer than "laziness"?

I've spent the past 35 years actively avoiding viewing ads. I was radicalized by AdBusters magazine when I was ~25. It used to be harder, because you'd need to either turn off the TV or change the channel, and magazines were filled with them, you couldn't tear them out because the back of the ad was the other half of the article.

Commercials can sometimes be interesting to analyze, if you try to watch them objectively? What are the current desires, what do they want you to desire, and what are (fake) cultural trends?

One of the advantages of owning an EV is that I am not subjected to the ads at gas pumps anymore.

I charge at home so I don't see the charger ads either.

So I can know what products I need to buy.

And when I need to get excited for the next product

I use antenna tv, and whenever there's a ad I use that as a time to grab a bite to eat or to use the restroom.

They love their advertisements, that's how they know how to vote for the worst thing possible and ensure the taxpaying peasant is crushed firmly between paying them rent and paying them tax to fund more P&O Cruises.

I avoid the potential presence of ads.

I recall seeing some research that suggested “ignoring” ads makes you more susceptible to their content. I couldn’t find it after a couple searches though.

I hate ads but I realize I don’t watch nearly as many movies as I use to cause I have no idea what anything is about. I use to from watching lots of trailers in tv ads.

Maybe I can start watching movie trailers on you tube ?

Thats what im missing from the on-demand 24/7 availability streamfests. Theres never a time when im forced to tend to the needs of my body so I kinda just dont.

At least when the internet was slow I'd get 5 minutes to let the video buffer

As one of the guys who just rawdogs unfiltered internet, I like to think im doing everyone a favour. The websites get that per-impression revenue and the ad block crowd have one less person on their lifeboat.

None of these advertisers are going to get my money because I have none to spend. I cant even afford the luxuries I want. Im looking forward to payday in 2 weeks time so I can buy whatever snacks are going supercheap in my local discount shop

I used to be that way too, decided I was going to splurge on 2 fixed yagi's and 1 yagi on a rotor and they are all 30 feet above my roof and I pick up around 60 some channels.

I straight up just install it on any pc I touch. I don't care if you don't want it.

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