Do you not use Adblock plus on Firefox? This (if set correctly, the defaults allow more ads in, I suspect they might even be being paid off with donations) cans a great amount of the ads.
Mine is usually fanboy list, Easy List UK, Easy list Dutch and very little gets through.
The permissible run time of an ad break on broadcast television or radio is set by a country’s Communications Ministry or Ministry of Arts and Culture, depending which one has responsibility for content (as opposed to technical issues such as frequency allocation). In the UK Ofcom is actually a combination of staff from both ministries. The UK’s max length was on the low side until the satellite broadcasters arrived and lobbied for it to be increased, and in many European countries even the national public broadcaster has ads as well as either charging a license fee or getting taxpayer money. they do have stronger rules such as no ads around childrens programmes and the companies advertised must be for social good. But these blocks can easily be 3 minutes, however they TX exactly at the top of the hour so its easy enough to avoid them if you have a DCF77 accurate clock or watch, you just turn the telly on 3 mins later 😉
Last time there was tropo I was listening to the national Radio 2 of Belgium in Flemish (Dutch) and there was an advert from a shop selling baby goods offering 20% off everything for any pregnant woman in Belgium (I remember reading that their birth rate was low/declining so they want to encourage people having babies).
