I cut the cord a couple of years ago and primarily watch Netflix or Amazon Prime video. Both contain commercial-free content which I am happy to pay for. I do watch TV (over the air) occasionally and the commercials are so pathetically mind numbing that I can't stand them. I often wonder who they are pandering to because I find them so offensive. Which brings me to my point, I won't be watching any streaming crap that contains ads or commercials. So good luck with that facebook.
Have you tried listening to FM radio in a while? It's the same at it used to be but worse, somehow, after getting used to cached internet radio stations sans commercials...
I gave up on FM because of the incessant commercials 15 years ago. I tried again while on vacation, and it's definitely much worse. I don't know how anyone can manage to listen to the radio and not go insane. 25% of air time is commercials or inane talking. The music is overly compressed and every station plays the same songs. Over. And. Over.
Thankfully, one can get music without that crap easily.
TV isn't much better these days. If drug companies and law firms stopped advertising, most cable channels would go out of business.
Only 25%??!!?? Where do you live. Try using the radio during any normal time commute. I was counting before I quit listening. A 30 minute drive my play two songs. Listen for an hour, and you would hear those two songs again. I did learn a lot about the laughing hyena's bathroom habits, though.
We have a bit a game whenever the family is in the car, as soon as the radio stations stops playing music we flick to the next station looking for another song. These days it's getting harder and harder to find music so we are increasingly switching over to Spotify more and more often.
I like the randomness of radio surfing rather than me choosing a genre as with Spotify, but it is almost impossible to do these days.
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I cut the cord a couple of years ago and primarily watch Netflix or Amazon Prime video. Both contain commercial-free content which I am happy to pay for. I do watch TV (over the air) occasionally and the commercials are so pathetically mind numbing that I can't stand them. I often wonder who they are pandering to because I find them so offensive. Which brings me to my point, I won't be watching any streaming crap that contains ads or commercials. So good luck with that facebook.
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I gave up on FM because of the incessant commercials 15 years ago. I tried again while on vacation, and it's definitely much worse. I don't know how anyone can manage to listen to the radio and not go insane. 25% of air time is commercials or inane talking. The music is overly compressed and every station plays the same songs. Over. And. Over.
Thankfully, one can get music without that crap easily.
TV isn't much better these days. If drug companies and law firms stopped advertising, most cable channels would go out of business.
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Only 25%??!!?? Where do you live. Try using the radio during any normal time commute. I was counting before I quit listening. A 30 minute drive my play two songs. Listen for an hour, and you would hear those two songs again. I did learn a lot about the laughing hyena's bathroom habits, though.
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I like the randomness of radio surfing rather than me choosing a genre as with Spotify, but it is almost impossible to do these days.