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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 10 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 10 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 10 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.