Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

Post by sdflhasjd » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 3:59 PM UTC

gpspake wrote: post #22

sneak wrote: post #11

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You don't have to bend over and take it, you can throw the device in the garbage. This is what I did with my Alexa hardware the instant it suffixed a routine response to a unit conversion or the weather or something with an ad for some unrelated Amazon service.

There's not a comparable device short of plugging a pc in to my tv and I'm not going back to that life. I play retro arch installed from the play store, stream my pc from my office in to RDP, and connect a wireless kb to one of two usb ports in the back. I also generally like the Google stuff including the assistant integration. The device is perfect in every way and I shouldn't have to throw this $300 device that's…

Post by marcellus23 » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 4:00 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #24

djrogers wrote: post #17

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> Apple is seems almost as bad too. There's recommendations that I don't want. The main AppleTV UI doesn’t have any recommendations for streaming apps you don’t own - the only thing that’s even close are when you highlight one of the apps in the top bar.

As an iOS user, there's a couple weird ones: Apple prohibits apps from putting ads in notifications, but sends a notification ad for every new Apple TV+ show. "Rules for thee, but not for me"

Post by wccrawford » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

gpspake wrote: post #9

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If you don't pay for it, you are the product. If you pay for it, you are still the product. You are always the product, phone carriers you pay monthly contract to collect your location data and sell it, TVs spy on your TV watching, Netflix/Spotify/... record everything you do, you will be monetized even if you already paid.

A lot of ad conscious users have been glad to pay the premium price for the Shield because of the ad-free experience. I've had the device for years and this is the first time I've been subjected to ads that I can't remove.

Post by afavour » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 4:03 PM UTC

sdflhasjd wrote: post #25

djrogers wrote: post #17

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> Apple is seems almost as bad too. There's recommendations that I don't want. The main AppleTV UI doesn’t have any recommendations for streaming apps you don’t own - the only thing that’s even close are when you highlight one of the apps in the top bar.

That is certainly better than the Shield, which is giving me recommendations for stuff I don't subscribe to. As far as I understand though, is that it will show recommendations provided by installed apps. I do have Prime, and I still don't really want recommendations without explicitly asking for it.

Post by kart23 » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 4:04 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #24

djrogers wrote: post #17

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> Apple is seems almost as bad too. There's recommendations that I don't want. The main AppleTV UI doesn’t have any recommendations for streaming apps you don’t own - the only thing that’s even close are when you highlight one of the apps in the top bar.

As an iOS user, there's a couple weird ones: Apple prohibits apps from putting ads in notifications, but sends a notification ad for every new Apple TV+ show. "Rules for thee, but not for me"