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If they were universally hated it would be easy to outlaw them through democratic means. Yet bring this up to the average person and they'll quickly find 500 reasons why it shouldn't be done. The only reasonable conclusion (sad as it may be) is most people don't actually hate ads.

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I'm always baffled by this. The only exposure I have to video ads at all anymore are the 3 or so football games I might watch per year OTA. Each time, I'm always absolutely blown away by both the amount of and content of the ads and how maddening they are.

I always wonder if people who watch regularly are just used to it as part of life, like some weird advertising Stockholm syndrome.

haha, you seem to think laws a democratically created. we should all by now know that most laws are written by others that donate the most to the congress critters that just attach their names to them.

Everybody hates daylight savings time but we still have it.

54% of people are creeped out by targeted ads, 79% of mobile and 73% of desktop users are "frustrated" by the current ad load, and 70% of customers across the board find digital advertising "annoying and unpleasant".

(I have a self-held theory that roughly 30% of people are... interesting to say the least.)

I hate time change but I love daylight savings time.

I'll put up with the switch if that's the only way to get DST.

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