Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by sneak on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:12PM (#27884239)

The recommendation if your fridge starts showing ads one day is indeed that you throw it in the trash and get a fridge that, you know, doesn't do that.

Same goes for an STB, or car, or any other thing that abuses you. You don't have to sit and take it simply because "that's the modern world".

Consumer choice is an important and powerful tool. Don't buy or use crap that abuses you, and don't shop at vendors that think that abusing their users is ok.

We got into this situation because people tend to throw up their hands and suffer.

> I also generally like the Google stuff including the assistant integration.

Google is an advertising company. Everything they do is in service to this goal, despite whatever side perks it may deliver to you occasionally. Liking the Google stuff while not liking ads is a mistake, because they are inseparable.

If you don't like ads, don't give your money and data to an advertising company. Don't run Android TV.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by GrinningFool on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:31PM (#27885180)

> Same goes for an STB, or car, or any other thing that abuses you. You don't have to sit and take it simply because "that's the modern world".

So you're saying as soon as you're abused just toss a few hundred/thousands/tens of thousands of dollars of hardware out the window and spend a like amount somewhere else -- hoping that /this/ time is different? Even though when you bought the equipment this wasn't the state of it?

It must be nice to live in that world. Wasteful and expensive, but nice.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by emodendroket on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:59PM (#27884847)

Wasting thousands of dollars tossing working hardware doesn't seem like it's really sticking it to manufacturers at all.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by ipaddr on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:06PM (#27885556)

In some cases you be forced to. Discovering a hidden camera that takes random photos and send them for audience verification might be one reason I would drop a product.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by emodendroket on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:19PM (#27885683)

Well, maybe, but that's a different claim.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by sneak on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:03PM (#27886719)

Google, the vendor in question here, has been previously busted putting hidden microphones in their hardware.

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