Is that any worse than kid's programming on regular TV, though? Apart from the actual ads, it seems a lot of children's shows are just advertisements in and of

Is that any worse than kid's programming on regular TV, though? Apart from the actual ads, it seems a lot of children's shows are just advertisements in and of themselves. My kid started wanting all kinds of Paw Patrol merch without ever seeing the show. Word-of-mouth really works, provided it's backed by a massive propafanda campaign targeted at a critically impaired demographic, anyway. Fortunately, the national broadcasting company here do a kid's show with no advertising, and seem to also have filtered out the shows that are just selling toys. The only problem is, they insist on making their own programming as well as showing cartoons they've bought from elsewhere. I can tell when the in-house production starts even if I'm not watching at the moment, because my kid will start going "I don't want to watch this!" I remember watching the same show, and having the same aversion to the local content, as a kid. Now, as a parent, I wonder if they intentionally put in some low-interest stuff in to make the show less addictive and teach the kids some kind of life lesson... If so, it probably worked better on TV than it does on their streaming service, where you can skip at will. Maybe there's an idea, a dumb stream with no skipping and no channel surfing for kids. Don't like the show? Maybe it's more fun to go out and play!