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There's a law of conservation of advertisement. It's not like you were going to get away from ads forever when switching from real TV. I prefer the purely interstitial (untargeted) commercials from real TV. With a DVR I can fast forward them, or always at least mute. Having Amazon/Netflix "recommend" things to me through what should be a functional unbiased system is more insidious.


Ads in the middle of the show? No way. It’s literally an interruption.


If it's for free OTA television, I'm OK with that. I don't know why people never rose up against it in cable/satellite-only channels that they pay for.

/I'm OTA, Netflix, and the library. But I mostly only use Netflix for the DVD service. I'm fortunate enough to have enough going on in my life that I watch very little video.


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It's so out of touch with how most people think, it's genuinely fascinating to see. I wonder if it's a true belief or some sort of facade.

I think I'd easily bet 3:1, $1000 that if you polled people they'd rather have targeted end-of-show ads than untargeted mid-show interstitials.




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