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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by tshaddox on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @02:58PM (#38196062)
The AppleTV app will show Apple TV+ content by default, but once you've logged into other streaming services it will show a variety of content based on things you've watched across all your streaming apps. I suppose showing Apple TV+ content at all is technically "showing ads," but it's about as innocuous as one could imagine.
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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by MBCook on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:58PM (#38196888)
Right. I use the TV app to manage everything I’m watching. There are ads for Apple content (and extras like the football pass) but it’s rather innocuous.

I’m not getting ads from the lowest rung trash TV someone is pushing, random consumer electronics, things I’ve googled, etc.

As far as I can tell it’s basically the best experience on a modern smart TV without going full HTPC custom.

(LG was pretty good they’re getting worse with promoting things to you, it seems)

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