Stephen Colbert is being cancelled

[Marie Mallory]

You're lucky you haven't see any, but they're definitely there. If I watch YouTube videos for one hour, I will see an ad for Viagra for 87¢ a pill at least a dozen times, if not more. And that is just one rather annoying example. Then there's the Stuck Poop ad, the Rocket Launch ad, etc. But at least you can skip that after a few seconds. Some ads you can't skip at all. That's a key reason why if I see a video I want to watch, I just copy the address of it, come here (or go to any forum that allows YouTube videos to be posted) start a post, paste the video's address into it, hit preview... It plays without the ads. Some Tubers don't let you do that, because they lose their ad revenue, but many do allow it.

Edit: Rather Stupid omissions and mistakes

We pay for premium YT $15 a month, no ad's, but we watch a lot of YT.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Cable TV prices skyrocketed over time and while they provided more and more with time an awful lot of that was crap. I could have lived with maybe 10 of those channels, at least 3 of them the old TV networks' local affiliates. Of course the "sports" mafia and ESPN were the main cost drivers, and even those not into pap sports were forced to subsidize the rest.

ATSC 1.0 was a disaster for those far out from broadcast antennas, and even worse for those here among tall trees. ATSC 3.0 being pushed now is even worse, is often using problematic encryption that most converter boxes can't support, and much of it requires an Internet connection as well to support paid-TV over the air. Both boondoggles did the "owners" of the airwaves (us) great disservice. Of course much of it was driven by bandwidth clawback in order to free up spectrum to be sold off to the cellular industry.

Oligarchy has won far too many battles in the last half century.

We like the real life podcast and the movies. Since the Obamas now own Netflix we don't pay to watch it. We have lots of music from all eras and movies and info on YT.