The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads
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is this about the stupid football thing?
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Yeah I guess the superbowl is soon, there's another row of football ads one or two rows up. I'll remind myself that I paid for the TV, the electricity to run it, and the bandwidth to connect it, yet I'm still shown full screen ads first thing when I turn my TV on. And I don't even watch football. And I can't disable it.
Corporate America and gargle my balls
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Congratulations! So, how does the TV work with the adblocker set up?
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Don’t ever connect a “smart” tv to the internet. Period.
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Apple TV was the best media thing I’ve bought in over a decade. No ads ever, incredibly responsive (league of its own compared to stuff like Roku), and is able to stream from my Jellyfin server. Beautiful interface, fast, clean, simple controller with a battery life that is easily over a year. Just a really good product. Roku can suck by nuts. Literal full page ads in a product that advertises that it has zero of them. Even the most expensive version. Fuck Roku.
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meta-ad-ception
Ads within an ad, about about ads.
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what brand is it? just to know what to avoid
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Check for HTTPS traffic as well as the regular let 53. They could be doing DNS over HTTPS to get around the block, or a static IP for a nameserver.
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I'd honestly return it as faulty. Preloaded adware shouldn't be acceptable.
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We have not owned a TV since the 00s and have no intention of buying one any time soon, but I had a look at the FUTO website you linked and it's interesting read (even for the non-expert I'm).
Thx for sharing
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Yo dawg! I heard you like ads. So we put ads in your ads
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DNS calls are definitely cached. You'll have to wait a few days until your TV refreshes DNS entries.
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Get a cheap computer and connect the tv to it; get a mouse and bluetooth keyboard or an air mouse if your want to; install kodi perhaps, or just have your bare desktop. Problem solved
Disconnect the tv to wifi too.
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I mean... Historically I find the superbowl ads (and the halftime show) more entertaining than the actual game, but damn that is shitty.
