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ELI5 How come streaming service are now running commercials? Is that not bad for business because most if not all people got it to avoid commercials? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Do you know what else eventually happened with cable? People cutting it by the millions when there was finally another choice.

It’s interesting that my family went from wasting time siting in front of a big screen tv paying massively for cable channels we never used, to cutting the cable and only paying for 2-3 streaming services at a time

But it’s even more interesting we continued down this path so our down time is dominated by small screens and somewhat interactive media instead of passively watching. If I stop paying for streaming media, my teens wouldn’t notice. It would just be the people here who would notice, as I complain more about doom scrolling and reaching the end