I remember when cable TV was coming on in the 70s. The big stick cable was beating everyone with was NO commercials. My sister could not stop talking about cable and the NO commercials gig.

It was years later before I finally got cable and the first thing I noticed was all of the phucking commercials. And after midnite all that was showing was gobs of infomercials and The History Channel that was nothing but reruns. I kicked cable out of my house in 2004 and never looked back. I just could not deal with me actually paying for a product that half the programming was commercials.

So, no to commercials or anything that smells like them. If I want a new pin I would just rather buy the pin without wi-fi.

Netflix is still commercial free but youtube is starting to amp things up with the commercials, but I do not pay for youtube so I am cool with that.

I don't know about anyone else but I used to have a 10 foot dish in the back yard 30 years ago when you could watch all kinds of stuff. And then the scramblers got put on so you had to start subscribing--and-paying--to see anything. I quit using the satellite.

In 2004, I got tired of the cable with all of its advertisements ( a 30 minute show was 10 minutes worth of ads. At 1am it was ALL infomercials ). I kicked cable out of the house. Three months later my girl friend did the same thing. Later on, we did a little traveling and noticed that the cable offerings on motel TV sucked wind.

With youtube and Netflix, I am doing fine.