After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by gambiting on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:37PM (#38196599)

Meh, I own an LG CX and I have never seen a single ad on it - the app integration is so good I can't imagine needing to mess with another device just to use streaming services. Just don't buy ad-ridden crap from Samsung and others, I guess?

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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by MBCook on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:52PM (#38196803)

TBF that’s a higher end TV. I love mine.

The lower the cost, the more likely this crud is. If you buy a $250 55” TV you’re (unknowingly) signing up for ads.

Sadly, there isn’t much middle ground anymore. Ads and spying, or a ton of money (and spying).

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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by devbent on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:32PM (#38198146)

Sony sells TVs that cost just a bit more than the competition but you can easily not opt-in to ads during initial setup (they are not selected by default!).

Sadly Google seems to insist on showing YT recommendations to matter what on Google tvs, but you can just opt into "app only mode" and then you get none of that.

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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by MBCook on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:11PM (#38198590)

I would put Sony in my second category above. High quality TVs, and a price to match.

The fact they use Google gives me pause. My last TV was a Sony with Google and it was slow as dirt (Sony’s fault, since fixed on newer models). And it was a great TV otherwise. But I don’t trust Google not to find a way to shove ads in later.

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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by devbent on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:53PM (#38199456)

Sony's tvs are broken into price tiers, they have low end ones with garbage picture quality, medium tier tvs with better picture and a better CPU, and high end ones with excellent image quality.

Sadly neither Sony tv I have had (including one I just bought) are able to stay connected to my wifi for more than an hour or so before losing connection....

Sony is not known for the quality of their software...

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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by MBCook on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:53PM (#38200004)

Yeah I’ve been on the wrong side of their software quality before. It’s too bad. The electronics are top notch, as always.

PlayStation has the religion, but the rest of their consumer stuff doesn’t.

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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by nunez on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:50PM (#38200502)

Our 55" A95K has Google TV built in but we never use it and it has never seen a packet from an outside network since we got it. We use Apple TV with it, and for that purpose, it is very fast and easy to use.

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Re:After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fir... by petepete on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:20PM (#38197969)

Perhaps some models don't but I don't think it's a free m given.

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/320778-how-to-stop-l...

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