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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It's absolutely no different! The TV is doing something weird to get around it, or these ads are just cached from earlier. I'm not sure yet. Good news is that the ad blockers definitely works, we're getting 96/100 on https://adblock-tester.com/
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Don’t ever connect a “smart” tv to the internet. Period.
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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.
