I cut the cable TV cord in 1999. For whatever movies/TV we’ve wanted to watch, we’ve just gone to our public library to get DVDs and later on, streamed stuff.
uBO in all the browsers as well.
If you make a concerted effort, you can de-TV the household and it takes little time to find ways pick up on watching the things you like - w/o commercial interruption… I could not imagine watching an evening of broadcast TV.
Given that the average show is now 40 minutes long - thats an hour of commercials between the 3 primetime hours of 8 and 11 pm.
I’m not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.
Fuck that shit.
nevyn@lemmy.vg 2 hours ago
Makes sense for those who have children. I don’t have children so I never considered that monitored exposure to adverts would be a necessary part of their education. I have no idea how a parent could effectively raise a child to understand how bad the adverts are, when children these days are so over exposed to those adverts from day 1.
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Well, you just start like most anything, I guess. I talk to them. A commercial comes on and I say why I don’t think it’s good to listen to. I talk about them targeting children, why that’s a problem, normalizing unhealthy things, predatory practices for poor/uneducated/whatever, and so on. I point out specific wording or presentation that makes it problematic and explain it. They probably don’t understand most of it yet, but the way I look at it, I’m planting seeds that’ll make more sense when they’re ready for it.