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”?

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    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

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      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.