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

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Post by jdofaz »

stalfosknight wrote: post #92

This is why I stopped using TiVo. I had been a loyal customer who was very happy to pay a subscription and bought several generations of TiVo boxes until they started inserting ad banners whenever you paused whatever you were watching and then into the UI's menus as if that wasn't enough. I wish I could ban advertising and marketing.

The current version of the software plays a video ad when you start playback of a recording.

They try to be sneaky about it, it doesn't play them on channels like PBS, nothing indicating it is a streaming ad and you can FF through it

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Post by swiley »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #132
swiley wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My copy of Audacity hasn't auto-updated to include any of that crap and it looks like future updates will come from a fork where it's stripped (if muse group even bothers to continue) so I'd say that's an example of it working.

Unless you were unaware of what was happening with Audacity. If you didn't hear about the news, you'll update and have no idea.

I installed it from guix, the package maintainers are aware of the issue and will not distribute updates containing telemetry.

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Post by zamadatix »

munk-a wrote: post #160
mumblemumble wrote: post #148

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I suppose it's the price of convenience? For my part, I pay a lot less for just Internet, borrow DVDs from the public library, and occasionally pay a la carte to stream specific shows I particularly want to watch. It's definitely less expensive in the long run, but my real motivation is that I really hate ads, enough so that I'm willing to put up with lower definition (the library doesn't do as much in the way of blu…

I don't know if it's fair to describe cable TV as convenience. Netflix costs about a tenth as much as cable TV (though it does require Internet so if you'd otherwise not have Internet maybe bump it up to half the cost) and provides a generally better service. People are paying out of laziness.

Live sports are still an enormous draw to cable tv and (legal) ways to get them otherwise are convoluted and still pricey anyways.

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Post by Spare_account »

Teledhil wrote: post #171
Bayart wrote: post #64

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Wouldn't a hosts file or a local DNS[1] or VPN[2][3] with hosts file support solve that without having to switch software ? I'm using Netguard on Android devices I don't want to root and it's been good. Plus it does per-app firewalling as well. [1]: https://www.zenz-solutions.de [2]: https://netguard.me [3]: https://blokada.org

I'm using pihole and blocking Google DNS and yet my tv was showing that awful banner. I think google serves the ads using some not-only-ads domain.

Presumably Google devices will just resolve DNS queries through a tunnel, if you block 8.8.8.8

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Post by swiley »

cbsks wrote: post #52

As soon as the ads appeared I voted with my wallet and ditched my Shield for an Apple TV. So far I don’t have any complaints.

You didn't vote with your wallet, you already bought the shield.

Then you bought another device with closed firmware from another company with their own ad service.

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Post by pseudalopex »

wlesieutre wrote: post #101
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #24

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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"

Apple no longer prohibits ads in notifications as of March last year https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/04/apple-now-allows-push-notific... Good way to get your notification privileges revoked though. I wish Apple would add granular notification categories within apps so that you could approve particular types of notifications while denying others. A quick google says Android 8 did this in 2017. Apple's policy on this is to…

Many apps send marketing notifications anyway. And there seems to be no way to report it.

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Post by vetinari »

duxup wrote: post #109

> a recent update to Android TV, Shield TV So did Nvidia just decide to do this? Switch it to Android TV? How did this play out exactly?

Nvidia Shield TV (the hardware) runs Android TV (the OS). As a part of the Android TV OS, there's the Android TV Home (the launcher). Which Google (the OS and launch app vendor) updated, and screwed Nvidia (hw vendor) in the process.
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