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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by signal11 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:21AM (#24625918)
A reminder that increasingly intrusive ads are one part of the problem. The other, and potentially bigger, part is automatic content recognition (ACR), which has been covered on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21899491 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21657930
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by Sjonny on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:49AM (#24626514)
Exactly this. I was surprised by the ads that they apparently shove down your throat but outraged by the fact that samsung knows what you watch. Most people that have a new TV will probably not even know this, only mentioned in some small letters in an eula that nobody reads. How is that even legal?
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