Ford reverses course and decides to keep AM radio on its vehicles

as someone who has religiously used UBO for the last decade, (ABP before), who uses sponsorblock in newpipe and libretube, who uses open source clients for reddit and some other websites i use, who does not have a google account linked to my android (aurora store just works, but primarily f-droid), i feel "weirded out" when i hear an advert or see one.

We do not have a TV at home so i am pretty much isolated from advertisements so imagine my surprise when i was riding with someone and their car was on the local FM station and they were blabbering some nonsense, songs and then a "commercial break" . urrrgh..

i understand people have to make money but the way internet is structured, you either wall it off like onlyfans where everyone is a paying customer or you let go of any considerations for "ad supported model". sure a lot of people watch ads but i'd rather not consume media that peddles ads. free or paid. no inbetween.