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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/acrowsmurder on 2024-01-19 21:27:30.

November of last year I had to move in with my parents. Ten years prior I moved out for college and found a great place with free internet for an unbelievable price. Since I had Netflix and used my TV as a computer monitor, I got used to just streaming everything from a browser using uBlock and Proton.

I did not realize how utterly unwatchable cable has become. There are ad everywhere. There are the usual commercial breaks, but while watching the show there are ads at the bottom, in the corner, advertising shows or sponsored products. While using the guide, there are ads. I remember using guides in the 2000s and don’t remember ads being so prominent in them.

The commercials that do play, they are about online gambling or some new drug. The ‘plots’ of most are demeaning and hollow, which, I guess they always have been.

Throughout the 90s to the late 2010s, only washed up celebs appeared in American commercials. Now big names like Zoe Saldana, Natasha Lyonne, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, Snoop Dog are in them. And why do so many companies have more than one mascot? Progressive has Flo and now two pigeons voiced by J. Benjamin and Rita.

And my parents pay over $200s a month for cable and internet, not including the various streaming services they have for their Roku.

Not to mention they don’t have the ability to view whatever they want, when and how they want.

I’m finally on my own again, starting from scratch. I have internet, my pc, and a monitor I found on the road, but at least I can finally enjoy streaming and ad free YouTube again.