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I hate knowing how much money is spent on them so that they can annoy us with every attempted second of our lives. What, you can't use that money to better pay your workers? You can't use that money to improve aspects of your company, so you're going to pay these groups of obnoxious pricks whose entire existence is to annoy people with your ads?

The ads themselves are too theatric for me to care, I can't tell you the amount of ads I've had to stomach hearing through Spotify that makes me care even less about a product. They just take turns outdoing themselves as to which ad is the dumber of the bunch that night. Even worse are the ads that try too hard to reach for something that was 'hip' to do like 5 or 10 years ago.

The lying in commercials. I've learned in life that some brands that aren't even the brand of choice, the best option available. I've been surprised on some of the things I've acquired from even dollar stores that somehow are better than the name brands.

And even then, there's still lies projected from commercials that attempt to snag you in for money.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

About 20 years I went on a vacation to southern Spain .... during the point when Spain was just fully transitioning into the European Union.

I remember trying to watch some TV programs (there wasn't much to watch) ... but the funny thing that struck me was the commercials. They'd play an hour and half long movie for about an hour ... then stop and play non stop commercials for about 15 minutes. It was normal for everyone because they used the time to just get up, bathroom break, kitchen duty, clean the house, go grab some groceries, etc ... then return to the living room in time to watch the rest of the movie. No one watched commercials because they all hated them as much as anyone else.

I don't think they do that any more but I thought I wouldn't mind that myself ... instead of breaking my show every ten / fifteen minutes with a minute of commercials ... just show them all to me in ten minutes at the end of an hour.