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Every time someone is like: “what? You don’t have cable you weird person you!” This is why. Got tired of paying a premium for commercials and over the years the commercial breaks got longer, and longer and longer.

Hey cable subscribers...go ahead and channel surf and take some stats on how often a commercial is playing as you iterate through each channel.

It’s ridiculous. Netflix is alright with me.



I'm a cable subscriber. I haven't watched an ad in nearly 20 years. DVRs solved the ad problem years and years go.

(don't get me wrong—Netflix is great, too. And also torrents. Not even thinking about ads is better than fast forwarding through them).


I used to have a DVR and it did help of course. But I was never fond of having to pay the rental fees of the unit for this feature. True it is still better.




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