Anyone else getting tired of paying for streaming services only to have them adding more ads?

[dutch777]

My wife and I abandoned cable and the big networks during Covid. The ads were just too much/many and too annoying. Now our streams that we pay a premium for seem to think that ads are okay and its proliferating. Maybe its time to just put a painting where the TV is and give up on anything video. Wondering what others are seeing and doing?

[GreenWave]

1. Right you are. I just need the weather from the locals.

And they have gone loco with their tease sections. Now I have to record the shows and fast forward to the 20 minute marker when the full weather comes on.

[Ferryboat]

2. At least they provide a little timer showing how much longer you have to endure the interruption.

That was the initial attraction for cable TV. No commercials.

Now we pay more and still get the ads.

At least the programming has improved.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Really?

We've has cable TV since 1980 & aside from HBO or Showtime, even channel had commercials.
USA, TBS, History, Discovery, ESPN....
No commercials was never a driver in our decision to get cable because for us that didn't exist.

[mwmisses4289]

3. Seems to depend on the channel

Disney, Hulu, and Netflix don't have any that I have noticed, but things like tubi and roku do.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. What mwmisses4289 said.

I haven't owned a regular TV in over 20 years. I watch everything on streaming on this laptop. I'm willing to pay a higher fee for no ads, but I simply won't watch anything with ads. Again, Disney, Hulu, and Netflix come to mind.

[Sneederbunk]

5. I live on west coast and pay for Discovery+

but get ads from Philadelphia. What's with that?

[Kali999]

6. There are free apps with adds.

Thinking of cancelling them also. Netflix spoiled us. Now it's turning to shite. Right wing comic specials and sports and disgusting documentarys. Like Petito Its depressing. Tubi lets you know when the ad is coming. I find Hulu impossible and disney do to all the commercials. Didn't even bother finishing that Chef show. Tubi Pluto and roku all have free streams.

[hunter]

8. There's nothing on television I'd suffer advertising for.

My wife and I don't have cable, satellite, or broadcast television. We watch thrift store DVDs and zero-advertising streaming services. That's all we watch and try to keep it under $35 a month.

That's about what we were paying Comcast when we quit many years ago.

What we're not spending on television we probably spend on books.

[flvegan]

9. Ads are for idiots.

I hit the mute button and ignore them. Nobody is ever going to even get me to look into insurance, medication, toilet paper or the latest Kia based on an ad. It's money poorly spent on my household, which I find funny.

I mean with all the algorithms, the invasive always listening Siri etc, the data mining of purchases and GPS locations, Smithfield still wants to put an ad in front of me to try to sell some kind of fried pork product to me? Morons.

It's inconvenient and annoying, but if you turn it into a game, it's hilarious.

[Emile]

10. I don't see where streaming is inexpensive. You

have to provide the internet connection $$, you can't record, no fast forward through commercials allowed, you have to pay them for their streaming service, etc etc. I don't see where this is good.