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My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

#11
Would be good to know if this is actually true. From a comment in the thread:

> Assuming that you tested that this happening only during commercials. When you google the issue, it seems like a lot of other people are saying that it unmutes in general after 5 seconds, which matches what happened to you from the video.

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

#13

Would be good to know if this is actually true. From a comment in the thread: > Assuming that you tested that this happening only during commercials. When you google the issue, it seems like a lot of other people are saying that it unmutes in general after 5 seconds, which matches what happened to you from the video.

Why would a TV need to unmute itself after 5 seconds?

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

#14
Buying electronics from Amazon means getting ads -- and always in the most obnoxious way possible.

I got a Kindle Oasis as a gift /w lockscreen ads, and it's unbelievable how annoying and embarrassing they are, and many are for AI-generated gibberish. And that's a Kindle. Now just imagine living with an Amazon TV...

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

#16

thats amazing, we've finally arrived at our destination, "shittopia"

All the stops for some time have been for Shittopia.

You can loiter a bit more though if you like, it looks like there will be plenty more stops for Shittopia. (We might in fact be on the Shittopia Line.)

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

#17

Buying electronics from Amazon means getting ads -- and always in the most obnoxious way possible. I got a Kindle Oasis as a gift /w lockscreen ads, and it's unbelievable how annoying and embarrassing they are, and many are for AI-generated gibberish. And that's a Kindle. Now just imagine living with an Amazon TV...

Not to excuse the ads, but apparently it's pretty easy to scam their customer support into removing them for free. Just send a support message saying the Kindle belongs to a kid and you're concerned about them seeing inappropriate ads, or something along those lines.

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

#18
The slow motion advertising apocalypse is coming. Eventually, the advertisers will realize that it doesn't work and people largely ignore it, the content providers will force you to watch the advertisements to get at the content, which people will hate, and which may inevitably come full circle to paywalls for greater content. Until then, we endeavor to build a better ad blocker.

Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks

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That is a bit of a condescending comment. But that said - I am not convinced other companies like Samsung and LG are meaningfully better.

I have a second-hand LG smart tv and it is slow as molasses interactively. Garbage.
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