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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by felipelemos on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:49AM (#24626118)
I think the best way to fix this before it creates legs is to have a huge backslash.

They should feel social pressure to backpedal this stupid decision by hurting their marketing for fear to be known as the brand that has ADS in their television sets.

Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by Hokusai on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:24AM (#24636913)
> They should feel social pressure

That rarely works. For each consumer that has the time and understanding to not buy the brand there is a thousand that are not aware. The way to go is lobbying for stronger regulations and to limit where Ads and recollection of data can be done.

Day after day we have more and more connected devices. Samsung is the tip of the iceberg, even if there was consumer backslash for one company the problem will still be there.

Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by thakoppno on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @09:43AM (#24627695)
Samsung TVs in the US have had ACR since 2012.
Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by Miraste on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:20AM (#24628133)
Consumers can't be made to care about ACR. Giant blatant ads are a different story.