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Consumers only have a choice among what is already been made available in the marketplace.

Which is of course why cahble TV, which consumers chose as an ad-free alternative to over the air TV, does not have ads.

And it's also why premium streaming, which consumers chose as an ad-free alternative over cable TV, does not have ads.

You can't buy your way out of ads because paying just means the advertisers have extra incentive to put shit in front of your eyes.

Even the high end $3,000, $4,000+ TVs have ads. Show me a mainstream TV that doesn't.

Nah, that's upside down. Consumers buy what they can afford. Wages are low, but companies still want to sell TVs. Advertising to the rescue! And so, as ever, good ol' capitalism pushes quality down while telling the consumer "you've never had it so good!"