With longer animes (ie naruto), some people say to skip the fillers and watch only specific arcs. Do you/would you skip the fillers if its your first time watching it?
When I first got introduced to anime with fillers, thankfully I had a roommate who told me which ones to watch. I tried watching a few naruto fillers but could never get into it. That's what led me to read Mangas so I knew the cannon episodes to watch and which to avoid.
It depends, if people read the manga first they probably skip the filler bcz well u already know the story and majority of filler is pretty bad. if you go anime first there's a high chance u will watch the filler. But sometimes there's a really good filler episode, personally I watch em so yeah.