But it's absurd.
Other crap is resetting the opt-out after a software update. And also putting the agree or disagree checkbox on a separate page than the actual terms you just read. You read it on one page then exit, look at a bunch of terms and scroll to find the matching document that has the agree or disagree checkbox for one of the TOS documents you read. It's a mess.
Never buy a smart TV just buy a monitor without any smarts.
The sound cuts out on it too you'll miss every few words almost as if it were censoring it.
I'm afraid someday it will not work if it can't update its OS.
Earnings growth for shareholders. Something-something-"advertising revolution/innovation".
It's quite obvious that it's Samsung ads as mentioned it's constant not at the start of a video like how YouTube would do it. And at odd times as if it injects every five minutes no matter what.
It's is incredibly annoying to have numerous ads in every video. I even tried to see what was going on using Wireshark but it was beyond my capabilities.
It worked great for a long time but then but changed my setup.
Then I wanted to try Pi-Hole again going through the setup again but the results were very different. For example my Samsung smart TV absolutely refused to connect. It is the same TV, same Pi device, same everything but no network.