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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by vanderZwan on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:09AM (#24625833)
How ridiculous is it that it's harder to get a product without extra nonsense added?
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by MaxikCZ on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:18AM (#24625899)
That extra nonsense is generating revenue to the manufacturer of the product
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by contravariant on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:56AM (#24626170)
At this point we might as well cut out the middleman and pay people to connect a black box to all their devices.
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by tzs on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:35AM (#24626944)
In the case of TVs I think it also has to do with there being no real hardware difference between a fancy Smart TV and a dumb TV. A dumb TV nowadays is going to be implemented as essentially a computer and monitor running a set of TV applications, just like a Smart TV. The only difference will be that fewer programs will be loaded onto the dumb TV.
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