I mute the TV when the ads come on. The stations have timed it so that their ads come on at the same time. So I can’t flip back and forth between stations.
There was a guy who created a device that muted and blackened most of the screen when a live tv event went to commercial. It could sense the signal change from live to taped, and back. I believe on the older sets.
Hubby noticed the same thing. We record any show we want to watch and fast forward through the inane commercials for products we’d never use. Snake oil salesmen abound on TV shows.
Only thing that is watched live are NASCAR races and football games.
Record 1 and watch 1 live. That way you can skip the commercials. Just have to know how to time the flipping.
And if it gets to bad I just turn my hearing aids off.
Now that we live nearly an hr away from major shopping, we don’t do that any more. Why should I go to the crime riddled mall that hates CHRISTmas and my gun? I just shop Amazon and order it PRIME, on daughter’s business account, she put us on.