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I have stopped watching regular TV about 6 years ago. We now have internet TV, occasionally I watch something if I want to, but only if I can skip ads.
My SO sometimes watches on commercial channel and leaves the ads unskipped, so I counted: 10 minutes content, 10 minutes ads, that on repeat for hour and a half. I get it, those channels live from advertisements, but does it realy have to be 1/1?
They could cram in more ads than content (Amazon does this sometimes). Ads piss me off though, slightly irrationally (I don't buy that there's any rationality to liking them), so, I can't use prime video anymore. Better to rent DVDs from my library than to deal with that garbage.
I'm surprised your library still has DVD's, the local library here hasn't had them in a decade or so.
Oh they're pretty awesome and about 5 mins away. DVDs, music, academic journal access, seed exchange, and several streaming services, free to library patrons.
There are a number of reasons that the far-right and corpos hate libraries. The number of services that the provide to the community (in the US) is a major part of it. Libraries in bigger cities even tend to have social workers on staff to help patrons who are homeless or have other needs. They are one of the few places that anyone is allowed to exist during daylight hours without paying.