Samsung UK admits you can’t disable ads on Samsung smart TV

Re:Samsung UK admits you can’t disable ads on Samsung smart TV by acoard on Thursday October 28, 2021 @05:03PM (#29031967)

My understanding is this is what Amazon Sidewalk is, at least in part, about. Your TV could easily bypass your network, and connect through your neighbours Echo. If I understand, it's opt-out and enabled by default. So, essentially Samsung will pay Amazon a few bucks a months to show you ads regardless of how you've locked down your network, because your neighbour hasn't locked down his.

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?ie=UTF8&node=213281...

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Re:Samsung UK admits you can’t disable ads on Samsung smart TV by paulryanrogers on Thursday October 28, 2021 @07:49PM (#29033559)

This is my greatest fear, that I'll have to resort to wrap around Faraday cages for each of my should-be-dumb devices.

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Re:Samsung UK admits you can’t disable ads on Samsung smart TV by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday October 29, 2021 @10:23AM (#29038759)

There could be wallpapers for this. AFAIK https://www.erfurt-tapeten.com/en/ produced one which had this as a side effect of thermal insulation. Or still produces. The 'wavies' raved about it a while ago :-)

Can't remember the product name anymore, unfortunately.

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