Haven't streaming services already solved this problem for home users? I haven't seen an ad on my TV since still lived with my parents nearly a decade ago.

They have a bigger problem now of including the commercials in the media itself. How much directing and screen time is wasted on focusing on a car brand’s logo or talking about the features and blah blah.

My solution was to simply stop watching or to watch older stuff.

HBO shows ads for its other content.

I'm kind of OK with that, honestly, as a) they're trivially skippable, b) there's no financial implication to watching it, and c) I turn on HBO to watch stuff so if they're letting me know I already paid for something that generally improves my life.

My issues with ads are really much more with third party transactions—I want to be the customer they care about pleasing. Unlike, say, newspapers, or cable, or social media.

I know Hulu still shows you ads even if you pay to remove them, but that may be an outlier.

That said i personally still have cable (YouTube tv) in order to watch sports and cable news.

I've heard that there are 1 or 2 shows on Hulu that show an ad before and after the show, but I haven't run into any of them myself.

Or lower sound

or a photo collage of your family photos

Use DVR software like MythTV.

Does that edit out live commercials? It certainly could, I don't think what they are doing is technically difficult, it seems like they are just marketing into the right people.

I'm not 100% sure if it can do realtime commercial detection. I remember a post-recording commercial scan job that had to run (I haven't used it since like 2009 or so). Modern hardware should be able to edit commercials in real time. With or without commercial detection, if you wait about 20 minutes after the start of an hour show, you'd be able to skip the commercials (automatically or manually) and finish watching when the show itself ends.