It's even worse when the ad server is down: it will completely lock-up your TV and you can't even watch it anymore. In the best case it makes it excruciatingly slow. That's why I turned off networking on my SmartTV already a year or two ago. No ads, works as a TV should.
Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
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#12Here's wondering if these ads can be blocked simply with a DNS based blocker like PiHole.
Roku’s ads (and intensive logging) can be blocked this way. I’d expect it to work that same for Samsung TVs
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#13Do they wait with showing ads, say a month or so, until after the common return policy for most stores have expired? That would be a really evil thing to do, just struck my mind. Also, sounds like a case of optimization creep - "I know a way to get even more revenue, we just sign up with this $more_shady_ad_network!". Displaying more and more creepy ads, no-one decreasing ads since they don't want to be the one decre…
They retrospectively updated panels going back to 2016 to "improve" the experience. Truly evil shit.
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#14I've had my Samsung TV for 3-4 years, it works just as well as well today as the first day that I bought it. I've never connected it to the internet and get streaming capabilities using 3rd party devices. Dumb TVs are much better than shit ones.
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#15Here's wondering if these ads can be blocked simply with a DNS based blocker like PiHole.
As far as I know, not everything can be blocked.
You were able to block everything in the past but no longer. Samsung catched on and now serves some ads over the same domains they distribute their firmware updates, install apps, get the program guide, and check the online status.
If you block those domains the Samsung TV loses most of its internet features and also seems to go crazy and requests all domains multiple times per second, defeating deep sleep of the TV.
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#16Here's wondering if these ads can be blocked simply with a DNS based blocker like PiHole.
Yes it can work but its a cat and mouse game. Not to mention, prevention is better than cure, this is indeed a cancer.
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#17Here's wondering if these ads can be blocked simply with a DNS based blocker like PiHole.
Yes, until they'll add a data SIM to the TVs. Then what, some shielding on the case? And what if the TV won't boot unless online with its own server?
I think: monitor + DVB decoder + Raspberry PI.
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#18Can those "smart" TV do ACR on content provided via HDMI? i.e. if I connect my apple TV to my intrusive smart TV, does it do ACR on the signal it receives via HDMI?
At home I don't have a smart TV (I use a JVC video projector and they've resisted adding those kind of useless feature so far) but my parents use a smart TV connected to an apple TV and so I'm curious what happens there.
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#19Curious to see what HN users believe is the best smart TV to buy in terms of OS functionality, privacy and user experience?
Re: Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
#20Here's wondering if these ads can be blocked simply with a DNS based blocker like PiHole.
Yes, until they'll add a data SIM to the TVs. Then what, some shielding on the case? And what if the TV won't boot unless online with its own server? I think: monitor + DVB decoder + Raspberry PI.
If they add a data sim, I’m going to work out how to use it!