[a_random_canuck]

This is all very fixable for Google: stop streaming video for free to clients that don’t have subscriptions.

Otherwise, if you send the content to my device for free, it is my right decide which parts to watch and which parts to skip.

[GuB-42]

It is your right and I think courts in most countries agree.

The legality of publishing (and profiting from) ad-blocking software and what companies are allowed to do in order to interfere with ad-blocking is less clear.

But one thing for sure, while ad-blocking is your right, companies certainly don't have to make it easy.

[bitwize]

Once again, per Jamie Kellner, your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots, otherwise you're stealing programming.

[r0ckarong]

Because people never ever in history got up to do other stuff when commercials came on. Everyone has been "stealing programming" forever.

Ads are a gamble, you bet your money that showing me a dumb clip will make me want your product. Guess what, you lost.

[squigz]

I wonder how many people would have accepted the industry making it impossible to change channels during "spots" while watching TV a few decades ago