Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
by hyperbovine on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:00PM
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> Q3: Can I remove these suggestions?
> A3: No, the suggestions cannot be removed.
I keep hoping someone will file a class action over this. These dumbfuck ads just appeared one day on my Bravia X900E, about a year after purchase. I didn't opt in to this and I wouldn't have bought the damn thing if this "feature" existed at the time. Sign me up for the class!
Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
by RHSeeger on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:16PM
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> Subscriptions in a snap makes it easier for you to watch a must-see show from an app that you haven't subscribed to.
Honestly, that's the thing I hate most about the Fire Stick, and why I don't use it's discovery feature at all... I don't want to see promotions for 4,000 services I don't subscribe to. Sure, if I search for a specific show, I don't mind results from those services ... but as general adverts for shows? No thank you.
I found the support article from Sony on this:
https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00225587
If this is a TV that is used by very young children, ads with blood splatter as shown in their example seem pretty tasteless.
Google's page on the introduction of ads has the same thing - an ad for Sesame Street followed up with the ad containing blood splatter.
https://blog.google/products/android-tv/find-new-faves-faste...