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I lost contact with him, but I later pictured him using things like Tivo/DVRs and NOT skipping over ads, LOL.
I've since been in the room with people using DVRs where they either jumped back to watch an ad or someone else asked the person fast-forwarding to go back. It's not like that roommate was the only one.
Passively watching (linear) television was mostly the norm back then. I would know lots of people of all kinds of ages that would turn their TV on and mostly leave it on all day. Doing what I think of as more mindful/active watching required a fair bit of work and attention. Especially for college kids getting baked, LOL.
These days with all the options to chop things up with computers, do the homelab thing and rip/download and curate your own content with Jellyfish, Plex and Kodi, not to mention all the streaming services and platforms like YT, TikTok, etc.,...it's definitely more the norm to take an active role in what you are watching and how you watch it. It's definitely a lot easier. Although maybe today's users that just endlessly scroll through things with very short formats served up by the algorithm are today's version of those people that'd turn their TV on and leave it on all day, I don't know.