[add-sub-mul-div]

Successive new major leaps in technology (concurrent with a dying culture of consumer protection) lead to qualitatively worse advertising experiences.

We're going from skippable ads (cable/DVR) to unskippable ads with surveillance (streaming) to algorithmic output/content that can be influenced by advertising with no transparency or disclosure.

[what]

How were cable ads skippable? I guess you could change the channel?

[add-sub-mul-div]

You can fast-forward with a DVR.

[shiroiushi]

You obviously didn't grow up in the 80s or 90s.