Yeah, looks like all they’re saying is that you can’t use scenic mode without ads. They even promise it won’t turn itself back on after an update, which is a surprising yet refreshing thing to see.

I simply don’t believe such a promise. Maybe that’s their intention now, but such companies subsequently change their minds all the time, and so not seem to feel any obligation to uphold former “promises”.

They even have a habit of blatting miscellaneous user preferences in updates by accident just because they’re careless.

promises should come with contracts that they will pay you something like the median salary per year if they change their mind.

> They even promise it won’t turn itself back on after an update

The cynic in me thinks that they've tried that and only after it backfired they created the promise (and they'll silently revoke their promise in the future)

You could find their ad server and just do a rewrite in your router for that ip address.

Or.. just don't connect the TV to the frigging internet in the first place.

It’s tempting sometimes. I recently bought a 43 inch 4K unit for 99 dollars, to use as a monitor for an Apple TV unit. I’m pretty sure it must be heavily subsidized. … but if it’s not, and tech has gotten that cheap, that’s actually pretty awesome! I’ve been working on a project with a hardware element and it is impressive how cheap commodity stuff can be when you buy it on the reel.

It never got hooked to the internet, and it never will. Hopefully network over hdmi doesn’t become a thing lol.

I am paranoid about these things starting to…(oh, wait, there is a great y combinator-able business idea in there that will make life suck a little bit more, never mind)

The inevitable wave of enshitification is real. We need to learn to surf.