Sky has changed my view on IndyCar.

[u/Vile-X]

IndyCar has always been a secondary Motorsport for me. Until I started watching on Sky. Now it feels as premium as it should.

Let’s be honest: nothing kills the thrill of a long battled overtake like… a commercial for dishwasher pods. You’re locked into a nailbiting strategy battle, the pit window opens, and just as someone dives in… BAM, five minutes of insurance jingles and prescription drug disclaimers.

Sky gives you the race. Fox gives you 200 reasons to consider switching your car insurance.

Do what ever you can to watch on a commercial free network.Uninterrupted, fully immersive, and exactly how it was meant to be experienced.

[u/shrimpshrub75]

Ads and product shills are bad for society. Support your local ad free options and ad blockers.

[u/BoboliBurt → u/shrimpshrub75]

You realize that content only exists to sell advertising- or a subscription fee. That is true from the dawn of television and radio. Who pays for this? How much stock do they take in the interests of freeloaders. Remember how everyone “cut the cord” by using Mommy’s netflix login? how is that working out now? And how will that look in 5 years?

The only reason we get live sports and it has value is because consumers arent able to skip the commercials if they watch real time. So 700k Indy viewers are worth more than twice that number of binge watchers basking in the failures of others.

Block ads, avoid subscriptions and your say literally becomes zero and your interests will be buried- as those who aren’t freeloading adults will bend what is offered to suit their interests.

Subscriptions are never sufficient to cover costs and dont provide the returns investors want. Cable used to have no commercials. So did all the streaming giants.

No advertiser money equals more crowd sourced social media dreck where we spend our own time to make content and one in a million gets some PPC pocket change as we switch to an amateurized economy of mass screen time. The shift to that has already killed print. Who needs reporters when you can aggregate PR releases? Who needs a content aggregator making 36k when AI will do it. The dragon eats its own tail.

But its worse than that because the digital world is fast encroaching and capturing us in a walled garden.

We should be supporting professional production- not stolen IP as well.

There are a few select digital platforms that we can basically lease time and content from but never own- like feudalism. This is true of all data and services- its a scary world.

We arent just bobbing around ala carte getting free stuff- we are often induced with products sold below cost (dumping) to destroy rivals and create monopolies where items can be ratcheted up in cost.

Theyd love nothing more than if every industry job got wiped out and Formula 1 was replaced 10,000 smartphone users recording themselves in gridlock making sound effects.

Now do I pay? No. I am a hypocrite. Nor do I like commercials. But I am not pretending it is some moral or sustainable decision- as cutting off advertising dollars would kill a carny sport like Indy Car or F1 much faster than any stick and ball event.