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Streaming Ads Are So Much Worse Than Traditional Ad Breaks (www.rogerebert.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Worse? Clearly you don't remember the days when if you got home at 6:15, you would miss half of your show. Or the days where the only option if you wanted a specific channel was to subscribe to an expensive bundle that included 8 other channels you didn't want.

Advertising has gotten so much worse, but everything being on-demand is miles better than what we used to have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Never dealt with missing shows, as I learned how to set my VCR to timer record when I was like nine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Ah, kids and their fancy new VCRs. Back in my day you had to be on time and make the kids wiggle the rabbit ears just right.