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Re: Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

fapjacks wrote: post #352

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> If you own an Internet-connected TV, you've been seeing these for 2 years or more How to prevent all Samsung tracking and advertising: 1. Factory reset your Samsung TV. 2. When promoted to accept the Samsung EULA, select no/reject 3. Attach computer or streaming stick to Samsung HDMI port (Windows, mac, chromebook, appleTV, chromecast, Amazon Firestick, Roku stick). I use an ancient PC with Linux Mint installed. Yo…

Hello! I would like to recommend to everyone one of the few utilities I've found in the last few years which blew my socks off, called x2x [0]. It is a small console program you can use to link your X session with a remote session (over SSH), so that you can move your mouse off your current laptop (or whatever) desktop and onto the remote "TV computer" desktop, and type things into that desktop with your keyboard. I'…

How is this different than Synergy (which I’ve been using on Linux, mac, and Windows for years)? Is it the same functionality?

Re: Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform

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Post by magicalhippo » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 3:00 PM UTC

contravariant wrote: post #306

DiabloD3 wrote: post #81

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You cant even get qualified as HDR below 400, and 400 is already ... a bit meaningless. Hollywood and TV authors content for 1000, and theres a mighty disconnect between these first few generations and what the content requires. To make this worse, my several year old U2414Hs can reach 280 at 100%. Those are inexpensive, standard, 1080p IPS office monitors, that have rather good color consistency for being low $2xx e…

I reckon contrast is more important than peak brightness. The eye is good at adjusting to brightness, and 1000 nits just seems overkill. You might need that much if the TV is surrounded by a white wall directly lit by the sun, but in normal indoor lighting conditions it just seems excessive.

Everything within reason of course, but even in a batcave the increased brightness of a proper HDR display is quite noticeable.

Re: Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform

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Post by egberts1 » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 7:13 PM UTC

Samsung: Hear me ROAR at the customer!

Re: Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform

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Post by qes » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 7:53 PM UTC

pixl97 wrote: post #284

ReactiveJelly wrote: post #173

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If the user doesn't control the software, the software controls the user. Don't give them network access.

10 years from now "All smart TVs come with a 5G network adapter built in to keep in touch with the ad networks"

"How to desolder power from your built in 5G network adapter"

I give it 20 years before we have to root our TV's to disable tracking while keeping it functional - and that might be optimistic - the industry could get there in under 10 if they tried hard.

Re: Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform

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Post by pridkett » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 9:03 PM UTC

We know that Samsung TVs aggressively try to connect from the internet and that they capture fingerprints from content played on them to show you ads. I, like a good number of other people, run an Apple TV, which has some ads, but nearly like Samsung (usually ads for content).

Does Samsung perform content fingerprinting on streams not played via the Samsung software (i.e. Apple TV content coming over HDMI)? Does the fingerprinting continue to work if you run your audio through a receiver and send no audio signal the TV?

I’m looking for ways to allow me to use my non-commercial Samsung TV (a nicer QLED TV from 2017) without having it spy on me. It’s on a VLAN that doesn’t allow outbound connections on my home network, but, honestly, I don’t trust Samsung.

Re: Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform

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Post by RealStickman_ » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #176

RealStickman_ wrote: post #165

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Did you check if lineageos available for those devices?

There could be, but as I mentioned WhatsApp is important for them and AFAIK WhatsApp updates are finicky with 3rd party ROMs as they explicitly detect them and ofcourse Playstore itself is not straightforward. Besides, Suprisingly Samsung pushes almost regular monthly android security updates for these devices.

LOS updates are usually monthly as well (as long as there's a maintainer around). Play Store can be gotten very easily by flashing one of the OpenGAPPS packages after the OS install. Not sure what problem you would have with WhatsApp, as it works fine for me and I arguably have an even more unusual setup than you would have with LOS and Gapps. (Using LOS, but with microG instead of Google Services)

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Post by woah » Sat, Oct 03, 2020, 11:10 PM UTC

I’m not familiar with “TVs”. Are these just large monitors? Do they start adding all this crap once you go over a certain monitor size?

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Post by Gaelan » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 12:12 AM UTC

dannyw wrote: post #336

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Is this hypothetical or documented?

Yes, Samsung TVs will try to connect to any open wifi network without your interaction: https://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/bpjky4/worried_ab...

Wow.

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Post by vetinari » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 1:00 AM UTC

TacticalTable wrote: post #187

snarfy wrote: post #29

Samsung really needs to just flush their entire software division. It's all garbage. Their android software is a frustrating joke. Tizen is a hot mess. Every issue I've ever had with a samsung product was with their software, and it's why I've sworn off the brand as a whole.

I had been getting frustrated with my Oneplus and upgrade to an S10, and every once in awhile I wish that I hadn't. It's death by a thousand cuts, from engineers and management who have no respect for the user. Off the top of my head, within the past week, I've had: * The wifi slows down to Obviously all of these problems can be fixed, and many aren't exclusive to samsung, but dealing with all of them continuously is…

FYI, S10 will be getting 4-years support (3 major version updates, 1 year security updates): https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-android-updates-114...

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Post by hda2 » Sun, Oct 04, 2020, 1:41 AM UTC

DivisionSol wrote: post #341

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> I pay for Spotify, I get no ads. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. And how long do you think this will last before they decide insert ads into paid subscriptions? Cable TV did it. "Full-price" games are doing it. TVs are doing it. It would be extremely naive to assume that spotify won't do it at some point. Besides, my admittedly poorly-expressed objection is not to the ads themself but to the way people are bein…

Unlikely and I’ll cancel my subscription when it happens. Netflix putting promos at the start of their series is almost enough for me to cancel there.

Wishful thinking buddy.

It already happened so many times for so many media formats that it /will/ happen with Spotify. Unfortunately for both of us, downvoting some random post online won't change this outcome.

Cheers!