Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manipulating the efficiency of technical methods for suppressing undesirable transmission blocks, for example blocks of advertisements. The significance of a suppression method of this type is artificially decreased by suppressing the aforementioned differentiating indicators during the transition between the programme part and the advertisement block, or artificially increased by inserting additional discrimination indicators into the playback of the desired transmission block.

Abstract: What are proposed are a method and an apparatus for suppressing advertising for apparatuses appertaining to consumer electronics, in particular for radio, television and video apparatuses. The undesirable program sections are defined in accordance with a coded identification signal which can be received in this regard from an online service provider, in particular an Internet service provider. An undesirable program section is then automatically identified as such on the basis of particular specific features and a corresponding identification signal is supplied, in response to which the suppression takes place.