LAME computer question

[Kali]

I FINALLY have my aircard and it is working! Now I wish to watch some Stewart and Colbert.

Is there a way to avoid the ads?

[Denninmi]

1. On the Comedy Central show sites?

Not that I know of. If you try to fast forward to another point in the program, it plays ads. You can't drop out of them without losing the entire program.

I guess just bear it, the ads subsidize the programming. I admit it gets annoying, since they show the same thing over and over. How many times does one need to see Alex Trebek hawking Wheat Thins???

If someone knows how, please let us all know.

[Wait Wut]

2. Yes!

Go to the kitchen and make yourself a snack. Or, throw in a load of laundry, play with the cat, start a shopping list.

I'm lazy when it comes to fast-forwarding.

[dogknob]

3. Multi-tasking is the best fast-forwarding.

[Chan790]

4. Nope.

I mean I usually watch on Hulu just because I get a wider diversity of ads; but not by much. Also, it allows me to aggregate all my online TV viewing into one queue.

[Kali]

5. thanks all

so my technological advance is actually a return to the old way of tee vee? figures

at least it wasn't something I just couldn't find or figure out

[Chan790]

6. I prefer to think of it as free Pay-Per-View.

I mean I can watch what I want whenever I want and I don't have to remember to DVR it.

[HopeHoops]

7. Sometimes they only make you watch a portion of the ad before you can advance.

Usually there will be a small text box in one of the corners that says something like "you can skip the rest of this ad in (x) seconds". If it doesn't, you're pretty much stuck with the dumb-ass ad, but fortunately they only last 30 seconds. I just hit mute until they're over.

[Ptah]

8. I use the Adblock extension for Firefox and don't see ads on Stewart or Colbert.