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My TV (LG C9) just served me an ad for the Joe Rogan Experience.
- Thread starter Robin
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Yeah do this. Or just don't use your Smart TV for apps. Connected TV is the next big thing in advertising - this isn't going away anytime soon.
Yeah I've been meaning to shut of targeted ads on my TV. I was watching Tenet on HBO through my PS4 the other day and my TV puts an ad across the bottom that says "watch this from other providers." Motherfucker, I'm already watching the movie. The audacity.
Youtube has been giving me ads for Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, and other lesser alt-right douchebags. I say "stop seeing this ad", nothing. I go out of my way to block their channels, nope, still get ads for those very same channels. It's so utterly annoying, not just that I have to keep seeing them, but because I know millions of others are getting these ads.
I wish smart TVs would just go away, but they're a source of post-purchase profit for the manufacturers, so they won't.
I had no idea this was a thing... So you get ads even if you turn it off? Is there a way to not allow the TV to show any ads at all?
...not buy a smart TV? The whole reason you got the TV you have for the price you paid is because baked in to the cost is the fact that they can show you ads. Expect to pay a premium for a TV that doesn't have smart features. You can also disconnect your TV from the internet, but your TV will probably constantly bug you about connecting it
You can also build something like a Pi-hole to block ads on a network-wide basis.
Yeah but like I said, if I'm getting it, that means millions of others (who might not know their con) are getting them too.
I see. Back when I was looking for a 4k screen a couple of years ago, I preferred to buy a large 32 inch monitor and use my laptop/PS4/Chromecast for any streaming and media consumption rather than getting a TV. In my opinion, most TVs at the time were far too large for my small flat.
TV manufacturers are really invasive about getting data on you to sell. They can even track offline sources like cable boxes by visually fingerprinting what's being displayed on the screen.
The talk when Apple was rolling out the Apple TV app to smart TVs was that certain manufacturers were holding it up because they mandated the ability to mine viewing data and Apple wouldn't allow it.
The talk when Apple was rolling out the Apple TV app to smart TVs was that certain manufacturers were holding it up because they mandated the ability to mine viewing data and Apple wouldn't allow it.
Fucking disgusting. I killed the ads on my KS8000 with Alt DNS (https://alternate-dns.com/), which works flawlessly. It's free, and it's literally just typing in the numbers in the DNS setting of the TV. But I'm never going to buy another TV that puts ads in its menus.
Just got the same ad in German on my C8. Even here you're not safe. lol
This was the first time I got an ad, turned off a bunch of stuff in the settings that I overlooked apparently, hope it doesn't happen again.
This was the first time I got an ad, turned off a bunch of stuff in the settings that I overlooked apparently, hope it doesn't happen again.
I hate that my Spotify app puts it front and center every time. I've listened to thousands of hours of music and not a single podcast through Spotify. There's no way to say I'm not interested in it. So I have to see his stupid mug every time I open my app.
I never let my TVs connect to the internet other than to download updates
too intrusive
I use other connected devices
too intrusive
I use other connected devices
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Show me the fucking receipts. Round the time where smart TVs were coming in, non-smart TVs were mostly cheaper. The price of TVs hasn't reduced with any significance since then. Maybe OLED TVs, but that has nothing to do with smart capabilities.
"A premium for a TV that doesn't have smart features", give me a break, i bought a decent sized, decent quality dumb-TV five years ago that was cheap as heck.
When plasma first released I think I know someone who paid 5,000usd for a 55 inch
and by 2011 you could get that for $500 on a dumb plasma (I know because my family got one lol)
I just got it. It was really minimal IMO. I really just block out those top right notifications. Was more a Spotify app ad that mentioned Joe Rogan than an ad for him. But it was just a small text notification that passed so quick it really didn't feel all that invasive. Annoying to get it at all but w/e
Neither of those price points have any meaning without context. You can buy stupidly cheap large screen TVs today and buy stupidly expensive TVs today as well.
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This is the most insulting thing anyone has ever said to me tbh lol
the point was that smart TVs didn't bring down price like another poster suggested. the technologies became dirt cheap over time with widespread panel production
Yeah, I agree, this was just a notification and as an example Joe was mentioned. You often get an update like this.
I wish there was an app that could directly, personally contact Joe Rogan to let him know I wish he could go fuck himself.
And my point is spouting off two random prices doesn't really prove one way or another that smart TV functionality with ads has or has not impacted the price. You're just spouting off two different price points with no context. I'm not saying it is but neither of your points prove or disprove that because they lack context.
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I find this to be a pretty meaningless argument. I think what's more salient is that TVs with the best panels come bundled with Smart TV features. You'd be hard pressed to find a television with the panel quality of the LG C9 and CX, HDMI 2.1, and no internet features to speak of.
Agreed. It's a moot point because you can't really buy a quality set that doesn't have smart TV functionality these days.
Oh please! This is impossible if you want to buy any kind of quality TV and you know it.