One person's waste is another person's value. Both stances are correct.
But you would have hated having me as a parent. My kids didn't get to watch TV as a habit at all when they were young. They did get to watch TV, but only selected programs and only as a family activity.
As adults, they have all expressed that while it may have angered them sometimes when they were young, they came to appreciate my stance as adults.
If smartphones existed then, there's exactly zero chance that I would have allowed them to have one.
I grew up cable, my parents stopped paying for it all through middle and high school, missed it, grew up and got my own money, paid for cable, and… my parents were right. 200 channels of nothing to watch. Cable is a waste of money.
Based on your previous posts, it seems like you are fully invested in advertising for some reason. Don't know why you'd pay to watch it as well, but hey... different strokes.
They bloat webpages, take time from what you're actually looking for, and are a huge vector for malware delivery & social engineering. They literally take away from the programming you're watching if it's television, sometimes are even detrimental to the product that consuming.
Who cares if they “bloat webpages”? It’s 2024 our phones and computers can handle it lol. Either don’t go to the site again or deal with it. Websites aren’t free.
Some apples have worms in them. Some ads have malware in them. We don’t cry and whine about how terrible apples are as a result.
TV shows arent free. You’re welcome to turn it off if you hate the ads enough.
They were right.