I diligently mute them, I’m a freak I cannot stand them. But from the nature of many people’s complaints about ads, it seems like they listen to them and want to retain the words they’ve said?

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    5·
    4 hours ago

    I take ads as a personal attack on my psyche. I turn my toothpaste around so I’m not looking at the logo. I pirate any shows I want to watch, and I use uBlock Origin in my browser.

  • don@lemm.ee
    1·
    3 hours ago

    My guess is that normal people, such as the ones least likely to be on Lemmy, don’t do anything when an ad plays. They’re accustomed to seeing them, and aren’t likely to be inclined to stop them, as quite a few on here would. There are always outliers, though.

  • mrvictory1@lemmy.world
    0·
    3 hours ago

    One of the following:

    • Ignore, do nothing.
    • Fast forward. An ad break is around 15 min so sometimes we start watching a program late so we can fast forward ads later.
    • Change channel. Sometimes half the ad breaks are at the end of the program so by changing channel you don’t lose anything lol.
  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    71·
    10 hours ago

    I can’t stand ads. It’s even worse on TV when they yell them at you. So I actually stopped watching TV in 2009 because I couldn’t stop the ads, and I was tired to have the TV trying to convince me to buy a car every 15 minutes.

    If I want to watch something that was on TV, I download it from… * the internet *.

    My parents still watch TV and just let the ads blast in the background, and we need to yell over them to talk. I hate it. Then they’re like “oh it’s just like in the ad”. I don’t know how they can tolerate this. I did when I was younger but when I realized that the TV was trying to sell me twice a car in 15 minutes, or about 8 times an hour, I couldn’t help but notice and it’s just really annoying.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 hours ago

      Marketers: “So what you’re saying is, the problem is that the ad was not personally relevant to you??? Can we collect more of your personal data to give you ads based on who we think you are?” skin cream

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 hours ago

    I haven’t seen an add in years, but I would mute or do something else like a regular commercial break. You know, snack, maybe bathroom, check my phone, etc.

  • Two2Tango@lemmy.ca
    2·
    9 hours ago

    Ads are my chance to get up, make a snack, come back and find that along with the ads I’ve missed the next 5 minutes of my show