'It feels less like advertising and more like brainwashing'

'It feels less like advertising and more like brainwashing'

'Ad-supported streaming is the future. So why is the experience so bad?'Mary McNamara at the Los Angeles TimesWe "need to stop getting mad about the fact that our favorite streaming series are now full of ads and focus on how awful those ads are," says Mary McNamara. It is "infuriating that streaming platforms sold a product they could not reasonably hope to sustain." Far "from freeing us from commercials, they now demand, just like cable, that …