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nullify88 | 4 months ago

We do apply the same measure, adblocking. Except since companies base their businesses on ads theres a cat and mouse game at play to ensure you pay them with your attention. I'm reminded of the scene in "Airplane" where the captain is fighting off sales people in the airport. I feel the same way about the Internet.

My earliest memory of adblocking is the VHS recorder or player skipping commercials similar today to SponsorBlock and other autoskipping methods.

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anal_reactor|4 months ago

I've noticed that I got Pavolved and whenever I hear things like "But first" or "This is where I'd like to tell you about" I immediately rush to the keyboard, expecting a sponsor segment I should skip.

add-sub-mul-div|4 months ago

During baseball games I've come to get annoyed when I hear the announcer stop talking and take a breath, about to change their tone of voice from conversational to formal so they can launch into one of the micro ad reads between pitches or at-bats.

It's the one type of ad/sponsor I can never block or mute, it's just too short/sudden. It's a 5-10 second read. Muting the tv for a whole 3-minute commercial break doesn't bother me.

breakingcups|4 months ago

Sponsorblock took care of that for me

badpun|4 months ago

Also „Have you ever”.

Symbiote|4 months ago

In the UK the TV would show moving black and white stripes in the corner of the screen before a commercial break. If you were recording the programme, you could pause the recording during the adverts.

I don't know if there were VCRs capable of pausing automatically, based on the symbol.

Some examples — you can see one in the thumbnail for the first video in this playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGD2tjST16V9W8pWMM4bJ...

JdeBP|4 months ago

Viewers thought of them as that, and in popular culture that is what cue dots are remembered as today, especially by the Map Men, but technically that is not what cue dots were.

They were a way for the network to cue the regions for when to insert their regional content. It was not necessarily advertisements. And for programmes that were already regional, there was no need for cues from the network for when to run advertisements.

With digital playout, such things became no longer in-band.