I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before.
What’s some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
Baseball is unwatchable to me anymore because of ads the announcers read during innings.
Everyone hates advertising, but it’s an unavoidable part of life and it’s never bothered me when there’s a 3 minute commercial break. I’ll mute it until the show comes back on and look at my phone or get up or something. Or I’ll fast forward if I have a buffer.
But baseball TV and radio announcers reading frequent quick ads between pitches or between at bats can’t be skipped/muted and it’s like fingernails on a blackboard for me. After 30+ years watching baseball, I’m essentially done with it now.
Everyone complains about ads but I seem to be the only one who thinks real TV with its easily skippable commercials is the least bad option. Streaming services aren’t going to let us control the video stream the way DVRs do.
I’m from the UK and the bombardment of adverts you guys have in sports has always been ridiculous, but it’s getting even worse.
Anytime there’s a break in play, they’ll bring up an ad at the side of the screen. And literally everything has a sponsor. They’ll show footage of a previous game and tell you it’s brought to you by Dunkin’ Donuts, or something.
Watching the superbowl on the bbc its always funny how much time the broadcast spends in the studio, because they can only show so many ads on uk tv.
Every single break in play!
How the fuck a 60 minute game can take 3+ hours to play is beyond me.
The BBC cannot show any ads at all - other networks can show ads but there is a lot of regulation.
Good point, I must have watched it on channel 4 or whatever it was on this year.
Yeah plus baseball like cricket is perfectly suited for advertisement withjts frequent breaks unlike smth like football that has just the halftime
It may be impossible to completely remove ads from your life (without going all Ted Kaczynski on every billboard you drive past), but an ad blocking DNS, uBlock Origin, youtube premium, and sketchy websites to watch your shows and movies on go a looong way
That being said, I was forced to watch an ad while getting gas the other day, and I may actually do some praxis if that hits my preferred gas station. Hello FBI algorithm
Start hitting random buttons along the side of the screen. Most of the time one of them will at least mute the ad.
I remember back in the 90’s seeing news stories about the Taco Bell Doritos War in Iraq.
Same with YouTube content creators integrating ad reads into their content.
“But first, a word from ou-”
Skipskipskipskipskipskipskipskipskip
Rewindrewind
“-ack to the video”
You need an extension called Sponsorblock
Vagisil!
I stopped watching all sports a few years ago for the same reason. Games with an hour long play clock, were taking 3+ hours to get through due to ads.
I completely agree and I’ve had lemmy users go completely unhinged at me for enjoying ad’s. It’s unreal.