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Netflix was TV ad-blocking for me. I hated TV and stopped watching it for many years. Then when Netflix came around, I discovered that TV production had greatly improved, and it's the ad interruptions that was poisoning the art, making me feel sick to watch it. Without the ads, I could binge watch a multiple-year series of a television show, and not feel sick.


Meh, today's cable doesn't feel that different; I just start watching the show a bit later and fast-forward the ads at 32x.


Small reminder that cable's main selling point when starting out was the removal of ads.


Not around here (non-US country), it already came with ads. The point was always the extra content, since we only had four OTA channels.




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