Last year we wrote a story reporting that Netflix saves children from an average of 150 hours of commercials every year. We got several emails from readers telling us that not only does Netflix save their own kids from commercials, but that their kids don’t even know what commercials are.
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One reader even noted how when they were visiting some friends and the kids were watching TV on broadcast channels, one of their young daughters started crying when her favorite show was interrupted mid-episode by an ad for the latest and greatest toy or sugary cereal. Having grown up in a Netflix-only home, they think this might be the first time she had even seen a commercial at the age of six.
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