Be thankful you don't have the drug ads. They're an infestation down here. The companies advertise the crap out of a drug that costs the patient 3-4k+/mo, it enters the doctors subconscious so they're more likely to recommend to the patients, pharma company makes bank, the lawsuits roll in right around the time the copyright on the brand name ends (they're all shit drugs and barely more effective than placebo, yet with knarly side effects), they close it down and let the generic manufacturers fight it out while they pump the next shit pill or shot. Rinse and repeat.

Sports betting needs to go too, but I bet they'll just move those into shows like big tobacco did.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have them, but they're not allowed to say what the drug is. So only certain drugs bother, like Ozempic, but entire commercial is just everyone asking "Have you heard about Ozempic?" "Talk to your doctor about Ozempic"

They can't say what it treats or side effects etc. I like old game shows from the 70s so I'll sometimes pick up an IPTV sub so I can watch the US gameshow channel, and then cancel shortly after because all the commercials are either drug commercials on repeat or mesicaid commercials on repeat. Its terrible.

[–] deeznutz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I watched an over the air TV show recently, and they rolled an ozempic ad every single break. I would rather watch an hour of the save the children or ASPCA ads to be honest.