So I pay 2.5k for a new tv, I set it up. And in my fcking home panel of my tv, ads start to show up?? What the actual fck. This is the last time I buy a Samsung tv
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Is this your first smart tv they all have ads
Noticed this on my QN94. £1,600 for them to target me. Fortunately it’s quite a small tile which I’ve genuinely forgot about after a year
You have ads because you bought this TV which has ads. If you weren’t buying such shit, it would not sell :)
LG does the same.
Why?
Greed
Dumb TVs are making a big comeback for this reason. Alternative is to turn off the wifi and use a Roku / Amazon Fire / Apple TV unit as your interface
All you have to go do is go into the privacy settings and turn off advertising
My samsung TV got an update that made it start playing some samsung TV stream every time I turn it on and it slows the TV to a crawl while I try to navigate to what I want to watch. Terrible update. Before it would be on the main menu but with whatever streaming app I was using last behind the menu and didn’t lag to death.
My Vizio soundbar likewise also got an obnoxious update. It went from being a soundbar that just plays what i clicked on my TV to something that pushes obnoxious ‘stream this with Vizio’ push messages to the corresponding app. I blocked it from sending notifications but it’s annoying…
You are a soundbar, I want no input from you on what I want to watch. You are a TV, I want you to display what I click and not force auto play episodes of Medium from the 1990s.
Grab a Raspberry pi and setup pihole to filter DNS. Best thing I ever did. The whole house is 90% ad free.
With Samsung though it will block app installs and updates. I just disable pihole via the Web gui for 5 mins while I install apps.
Disconnect your tv from the internet and get an Apple TV to plug into it. Much better Ui anyway.
I’m an android guy and I agree with this. Apple TV is simple, elegant and just works. No BS.
That’s not how it is in Sweden. No ads for me.
The right arrow button on the remote stopped working after 1.5 years after the purchase of the TV. I used a potato that is 128$ that price in 2017! it is a tablet for the remote and it is known as the lenovo tab 4 8 and it died so I am using bootleg and sketchy remote to fix that.
Get an Apple TV. Best streaming box there is.
Never connect a TV to the internet. Not only can they listen to you with the mics, but the FBI (could be some love other government agency) used the mics to spy on people too. Louis Rossman talked about this when he was talking about Netflix on YouTube
i’ve owned several samsung, lg and sony smart TVs and not a single on has a mic. only tv i ever had with a mic was the mic remote from ROKU
Sony tvs most definitely have a mic. I’ve hung 50 of them this year for work.
This is most if not all companies with putting ads on their home page. It’s nothing new and been this way for years. So if you’re never buying another Samsung, you’ll find the same stuff on LG or Sony too.