• shirro@aussie.zone
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    4 hours ago

    sport

    I stopped watching sport years ago. I used to watch the footy every weekend. Summer tv was cricket. I rang a tv station once as a kid infuriated because I had been watching golf all day and they cut away just as the competition was being decided. Now all sport is tainted by gambling, overpaid and obnoxious personalities, and too much commercialism. I don’t know who plays for the teams I used to follow. I don’t care anymore.

    All my browsers are ad-blocked. I sometimes pay subscriptions to remove ads. I was time shifting for a few years to ad skip commercial tv but there was better content in higher quality on bittorrent, then streaming and now I don’t bother plugging an aerial into tvs or tuning the channels.

    Perhaps one day the ad market will collapse and sport will move back to the public broadcasters where it was before people worked out how to ruin it with money. Until then I can live without it.