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A difference between cable and streaming is that cable has DVRs that let you skip commercials if you want, while streaming tech introduced unskippable ads.


> cable has DVRs that let you skip commercials if you want

The last time I had DirecTV several channels had managed to have unskippable ads in recordings. Paramount was egregious with this and was the first channel I saw with this "feature" enabled.


I've never seen that. That's terrible. The people who put up with streaming enshittification are ruining it for the rest of us by normalizing it.


To be fair, this was almost a decade ago.




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