Here's the thing about ads.

D V R.
REMOTE CONTROL

We time shift almost everything we watch on the tube, and if we aren't time shifting with fast forwarding ads, we darn well use the remote to change the channel to anything that is not advertising. Why anyone would sit there and watch them is beyond me.

The robo calls are a little harder to escape, but with called ID at least I know who it isn't and don't pick it up if it's not someone I actually want to talk to. The rest of them can leave messages if it's a real person who was trying to contact me.