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Most people would do this with TV before Netflix. The stats on adult TV watching back before the internet was amazing. 5-6 hours a day on average. Ads have alwa
by njarboe 9y ago
Most people would do this with TV before Netflix. The stats on adult TV watching back before the internet was amazing. 5-6 hours a day on average. Ads have always been intolerable for me and the recent streaming trend with no ads and all the year shows on demand is much more addictive.
- ambivalents 9y agoYes, but was TV specifically engineered to be as addictive as possible? Was it designed to give you little hits of dopamine just at the moment you were considering turning it off? There are tradeoffs here, of course. We can now customize our viewing experience to our tastes (though even that, I question the direction tastes are formed), fewer ads means more quality viewing time, etc. Huge improvements, but with many attendant costs.