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I wound up having to change my wifi password. Without thinking about it I configured my current TV to join my wifi network. After it so kindly started putting
by jghn 9y ago
I wound up having to change my wifi password.
Without thinking about it I configured my current TV to join my wifi network. After it so kindly started putting ads on the screen while watching things I turned it off. A few months later, ads again. Somewhere in the bowels of the settings the wifi was reenabled, so I shut it off. A few months later, more ads. In a new place in the settings it was back on. Repeat a few more times.
Changed my wifi password and that took care of that.
- Keverw 9y agoWow. No way to opt-out of the ads? Do they have a in-hardware or in-app purchase to remove the ads? <- That would be a horrible trend to start.
- jghn 9y agoActually I take it back, that is what kept changing location. They'd have an opt out but bury it in increasingly arcane places, and of course since it was "different" I was opted back in. Then I started disabling my wifi and that kept magically re-enabling. And that's the point I took the nuclear option.
- tass 9y agoWhat brand of TV?
- jghn 9y agoSamsung, from about 4 years ago I think
- tass 9y agoI had a Samsung plasma TV about that long ago and it started to show notifications every time it turned on that some service I never used was being decommissioned. Same experience as https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/TVs/Annoying-notification-on-smart-TV/td-p/125307 https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/TVs/Annoying-notificatio... but with a different notification. I don't think I'll buy a Samsung TV again after that, and I don't connect any TV to the internet anymore.
- Washuu 9y agoLG does this too. I had to black hole its MAC address in my router.
- kstrauser 9y agoI temporarily set my SSID to some long random string and connected my TV to it. Then I turned off my TV's networking and changed the SSID back to normal. Even if my TV wanted to silently re-enable networking, it wouldn't have a network to connect to.
- judge2020 9y agoJust wait till they start trying every wifi in range with the saved password!