<story><title>Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year</title><url>https://localbabysitter.com/netflix-saves-our-kids-from-up-to-400-hours-of-commercials-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bargl</author><text>Worth. Every. Penny.&lt;p&gt;I went to my parents house with my son.  He was 4.  They turned on cartoons.  Then he said, &amp;quot;Dad why&amp;#x27;d you change the show? I don&amp;#x27;t want to watch this.&amp;quot;  It was a commercial.  I had to explain commercials to my son.  It was at that moment I realized how much of my tv watching as a kid was commercials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anoncow</author><text>After subscribing to YouTube Premium, I had a similar revelation. Now if only we could have a google ad-free subscription which would turn off all google search and display network ads, our lives would be so much better! What if we could have cities outlaw advertising on billboards and instead collect a small tax to make up for the lost revenue, how much would our quality of life increase? That makes me wonder, if we could ever get to such an utopia, what avenues would advertisers have left to sell products to us?</text></comment>
<story><title>Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year</title><url>https://localbabysitter.com/netflix-saves-our-kids-from-up-to-400-hours-of-commercials-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bargl</author><text>Worth. Every. Penny.&lt;p&gt;I went to my parents house with my son.  He was 4.  They turned on cartoons.  Then he said, &amp;quot;Dad why&amp;#x27;d you change the show? I don&amp;#x27;t want to watch this.&amp;quot;  It was a commercial.  I had to explain commercials to my son.  It was at that moment I realized how much of my tv watching as a kid was commercials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmkg</author><text>To be fair, my favorite show growing up was Transformers. So technically even the show itself was a commercial.</text></comment>