I can’t stand the pop-up ads during the shows. I can block them on my computer. Invent a TV that can block them, and I’ll start watching again. Some of them take up the bottom third of the screen.
It's almost as if the TV executives decided to make a list of things that would annoy just about every viewer, then they decided to do everything on that list.
That was one of the reasons I gave up on "King of the Hill" eons ago. During a movie on FX, Hank Hill drove his lawnmower across the screen and back again, with sound, I stopped watching Hank.
Well that, and about the same time, I bought a Palm, and a free utility was a multi-timer app. I remember watching "Kiss of the Dragon", and timing the segments. When the commercial breaks started outlasting the movie segments, I pretty much stopped watching FX, since they made it too aggravating. Seriously, 5+ minutes of commercials, and < 4 minutes of show?