You are finding the content elsewhere, what I learned is to not even desire the content anymore.
When I stay at a hotel I’ll pop on the TV for a bit before I can feel myself going insane. The content is just the worst now - it’s horror-movie grade ads (Seriously, you see these things ? And how much of it there is now?!) and reality TV which I have 2 friends who have been on and told me all of their secrets.
Reality TV is simply the worst. That was the final nail in the coffin of visual content. Of any kind.
“what I learned is to not even desire the content anymore”
This.
My “to watch” queue is growing faster than I can, or want to, watch.
Insofar as I do occasionally watch things, I have the list already full of good stuff.
Staggering the amount of dreck available. If there’s commercials involved, reconsider your life choices and take up gardening. Or drinking. Yes, ad-driven schedule-and-channel-based TV is. that. bad.
Get away from ads long enough, and you won’t stand them any more.