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Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by BitwiseFool on Monday December 13, 2021 @03:29PM (#29544207)
>"The solution is to vote with your wallet."

I don't think it is. I sense this might play out the same way it did with all the intrusive spyware on SmartTV's. Sure, I could try to vote with my wallet and find a TV that doesn't have all that bloat, but they are becoming vanishingly rare. The market has 'decided' that this is a standard feature now.

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Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by grangerg on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:24PM (#29546604)
Get a RokuTV. There's ONE ad on part of the home screen, and it's not animated. The OS doesn't feel bloated or slow at all. It ain't perfect, of course, but I'd never get a Vizio, Samsung, or LG anymore.
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Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by oofoe on Monday December 13, 2021 @10:47PM (#29547990)
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further”

A single ad now on a network connected device is no guarantee that it will remain that way. Especially as it becomes "optimized" for revenue from all possible sources.

It is unfortunate that the rest of this stuff is so infested that a single ad (for now) seems reasonable.

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Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by ok_dad on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:42PM (#29548322)
Yes and Roku used to have zero ads, so...
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