My husband and I enjoy watching British panel shows together in the evenings, things like “Would I Lie to You?” and “Taskmaster,” which we access on YouTube.

We don’t pay for the premium service — and because free is never free, we sit through many ads. So we occasionally have to sit through about 30 seconds of useless sales pitches, often offering us things we’d never consider buying, self-help seminars, new gutter cleaning systems or a chair that goes up our Victorian staircase.

When enough time has passed, we click “skip ad” and continue laughing at the hijinks of people like Richard Osman and, most recently on “Taskmaster,” the hilariously American Jason Mantzoukas.

Lately, though, our commercials have moved from asking us to consider learning Spanish without barriers to warning us

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