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Is there any particular reason you're not using an adblocker?
If you watch lots of Youtube with the iPad/iPhone apps, there wouldn't be any adblocker for that.
In a related note, I have come to realize the different levels of quality in children's television: - Public television shows (PBS) stuff is so lovingly created and charming. You can really tell they had experts and creatives work side by side to craft positive stories. Even if it's not particularly exciting. - Super-smart and creative shows (like the first couple seasons of Spongebob, or Gravity Falls). Great shows…
Gravity Falls -- yeah! I can't stand Spongebob, but are there other shows like GF?
You will get the impression in the first 20-30 10-minute episodes that the show is really fun but nothing special. It builds so slowly you don't even notice, then it really takes off.
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Similar thing here - the only time I now encounter video-ads-making-noise is at the cinema before a film, and it's becoming unpleasant enough there that I've largely stopped going to the cinema. It's not (or not just) that they're getting worse, it's that once the familiarity wears off you can't help but see how psychologically damaging and hostile they are.
> once the familiarity wears off you can't help but see how psychologically damaging and hostile they are. Same thing happens to me with TV news. I used to watch them, but now, everytime someone else is watching, I can't help but see how much they manipulate the content to their convenience, and how much they blatantly lie.
Clarification: PBS Newshour is as much (national / international) news as you need in a day, and doesn’t sensationalize.
Worth. Every. Penny. I went to my parents house with my son. He was 4. They turned on cartoons. Then he said, "Dad why'd you change the show? I don't want to watch this." It was a commercial. I had to explain commercials to my son. It was at that moment I realized how much of my tv watching as a kid was commercials.
After subscribing to YouTube Premium, I had a similar revelation. Now if only we could have a google ad-free subscription which would turn off all google search and display network ads, our lives would be so much better! What if we could have cities outlaw advertising on billboards and instead collect a small tax to make up for the lost revenue, how much would our quality of life increase? That makes me wonder, if we…
To me there is something seriously wrong with this way of thought. Why would we collect a small tax to make up for businesses' lost profit? It sounds, to me, downright bizarre, like saying forcing factories to be more environmentally friendly would cost money to the business and cut profits so we should take that money from the taxpayers. Wow.
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I'm guessing you don't have kids and haven't actually experienced the difference. - Netflix has gobs of kids shows (i.e., cartoons) that have zero product placement, at least as far as I can tell. This includes both Netflix originals and the rest. - TV has 6-minute ad breaks every few minutes that are non-stop pitches for toys and other shows. It's unbearable. Even shows on premium networks with some product placemen…
I literally cannot watch television anymore. Advertising is such a huge annoyance. What's worse is that it's the same five adverts played every six minutes all damn day! Meanwhile nothing actually can happen in the shows themselves since there's so little time actually devoted to it instead of revenue generating ads
This is great but if your child is watching so much Netflix that 400 hours worth of commercials are avoided, maybe your child is watching too much? Go play with Legos or do something interactive...
> The average 2-5 year old is spending over 1,600 hours a year watching television. > The average 6-11 year old is spending over 1,450 hours a year watching television. Jesus. 4 hours of TV every day. That's nuts.
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I'm guessing you don't have kids and haven't actually experienced the difference. - Netflix has gobs of kids shows (i.e., cartoons) that have zero product placement, at least as far as I can tell. This includes both Netflix originals and the rest. - TV has 6-minute ad breaks every few minutes that are non-stop pitches for toys and other shows. It's unbearable. Even shows on premium networks with some product placemen…
I literally cannot watch television anymore. Advertising is such a huge annoyance. What's worse is that it's the same five adverts played every six minutes all damn day! Meanwhile nothing actually can happen in the shows themselves since there's so little time actually devoted to it instead of revenue generating ads
In a related note, I have come to realize the different levels of quality in children's television: - Public television shows (PBS) stuff is so lovingly created and charming. You can really tell they had experts and creatives work side by side to craft positive stories. Even if it's not particularly exciting. - Super-smart and creative shows (like the first couple seasons of Spongebob, or Gravity Falls). Great shows…
Gravity Falls -- yeah! I can't stand Spongebob, but are there other shows like GF?
I would also say this is different than restaurants who is able to sell locally or products that can be sold with media (i.e. cartoon shows that sell related toys).
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kind of is though https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-cfs-will-not-erase-fi... https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arreste... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protective-services-called-on-m... https://reason.com/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-...
Aren't these stories newsworthy because it is ridiculous to not let kids play outside?