Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads

Post by izacus » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 10:32 AM UTC

belorn wrote: post #74

izacus wrote: post #42

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> Never buy a consumer product that expects an Internet connection. This is a nice trite trope, but getting an affordable TV without these features might be nearly impossible for most people these days.

Just looked at a price checking site, checking the oled and "no smart tv" boxes. Zero hits. It is not a question about affordable TV. The only ones that does not have smart features (as far as I can identify) are the cheapest LCD ones at the bottom of the price list. The best alternatives that I can find is projectors or monitors, as those seems to so far not expect an Internet connection.

Post by skocznymroczny » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 10:32 AM UTC

neya wrote: post #31

Fuck the guy who wanted to suck up to the management in some stupid meeting projecting estimated revenue out of this to ask for a raise later because he "contributed to a revenue increase" to the company. There's absolutely no after thought to this decision - If I paid 1000s of dollars for an "idiot box" that's supposed to reproduce faithfully the signal that I pass it, showing ads is unacceptable, no matter what the…

Post by JorgeGT » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 10:33 AM UTC

reallydontask wrote: post #77

tadzik_ wrote: post #56

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> If they want to collect air quality stats from my location they should pay me for that data From their perspective, they probably gave you a discount for your data. See also https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-collection-adv...

it's an interesting point you make, but perhaps companies should make these trade offs transparent. You can get the version that phones home or you can pay extra for the version that doesn't. I suppose the problem is that they'd make this transparent and there would likely be a bit of backlash ... thank goodness that regulatory agencies have our best interests at heart /s

Post by iso1631 » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 10:34 AM UTC

traveler01 wrote: post #53

obscura wrote: post #46

Yet another example of the customer coming last. Are TV's that force ads on customers heavily discounted? If not, the manufacturers are earning extra revenue while the customer loses their privacy and gets nothing in return other than annoyance. It's a good illustration of why privacy is so complicated: most people wouldn't think that in buying a TV they're compromising their privacy because they don't know about ACR…

This is so stupid. When I bought my TV it didn't behave like this, but now for some stupid reason I need to get ads on it? I mean, normal TV it's 90% ads 10% content, do we need to watch even more ads? Anyone has any idea on how adding a filter like AdBlocker to your router? Never thought about this but it's getting useful af.

Post by aaron695 » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 10:34 AM UTC