I cut the cable TV cord in 1999. For whatever movies/TV we've wanted to watch, we've just gone to our public library to get DVDs and later on, streamed stuff.

uBO in all the browsers as well.

If you make a concerted effort, you can de-TV the household and it takes little time to find ways pick up on watching the things you like - w/o commercial interruption.. I could not imagine watching an evening of broadcast TV.

Given that the average show is now 40 minutes long - thats an hour of commercials between the 3 primetime hours of 8 and 11 pm.

I'm not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.

Fuck that shit.

Look into setting up Pi-hole. Blocks ads and trackers. Been using it for years.

Also uBlock Origin as was mentioned.

Haven’t seen any ads in a very long time, and that’s only when watching over-the-air local TV and my finger stays near the mute button.

Advertising has become an omnipresent psychological assault.

Hard to avoid adverts in the U.S.

Unless you watch live sports, it's really not.

Makes sense for those who have children. I don't have children so I never considered that monitored exposure to adverts would be a necessary part of their education. I have no idea how a parent could effectively raise a child to understand how bad the adverts are, when children these days are so over exposed to those adverts from day 1.

Adverts are one of those things that once you have been away from them for a time (no commercial radio, no tv/streaming, no social media apps, ad blockers on browsers etc) that any exposure to adverts makes them appear so obviously absurd, cheap, tacky, and obvious. I recently had a job where they forced staff to listen to commercial radio, that is one of the reasons why I left, my brain was melting, along with my remaining faith in humanity. If people are stupid (or whatever) enough to fall for that level of advertising, how are they able to raise children, drive, or vote well? Oh wait, they aren't.

I did... :)

Normal and average are 'fun' words. They seemed to be absolutes when I was young, but they are merely reflections of contemporary society, easily manipulated. Falling off a cliff could be classed as normal, and average, given the right/wrong context.