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It seems most people's concerns are around obtrusive ads on the home screen. Which I agree with, as those are very annoying and takes up way too much sense. Ho

It seems most people's concerns are around obtrusive ads on the home screen. Which I agree with, as those are very annoying and takes up way too much sense. However, there is another component to Samsung Ads - the video ads on their Samsung Plus Channel. For those that don't know, this channel consists of free content (usually B-level movies, old TV series, etc). Why does anyone have a problem if Samsung puts ads on this content? After all, it does cost them money to license most of this content, and if you don't want to watch those ads, you simply don't watch that content. Not to mention Youtube and everyone else has the same business model.

scrollaway 6y ago
> Why does anyone have a problem if Samsung puts ads on this content? You're the only person mentioning this avenue in the entire comment section. Safe to say, it doesn't sound like people have a problem with ads there.
effingwewt 6y ago
I'll take a shot. People are just done with ads. My samsung S20 ultra costs me ~1300, and has ads on the phone, as in the native Samsung apps for everything. And since none can be installed I now have worthless bloatware I had to replace with ad free working alternatives. Samsung tvs are hilariously bad with ads all over. On neither item is it possible to flash this crap away or disable it. People love to tout things being free for our data, but this is paying over $1k to still have some of the most intrusive ads ever. You must own one of their products to watch their ads with shows thrown in (Samsung channel) and this means you have paid for access to that channel and are still being served disgustingly intrusive ads(as others pointed out they screen grab and send home images of everything you watch on any input)
p49k 6y ago
No one has a problem with Samsung putting ads on a channel with free content that you can choose not to watch. But to take screenshots of what you’re watching on your tv every 60 seconds, upload it to their servers, and use it to build a profile of you so that the ads on that channel can be more targeted should land some Samsung executives in prison. Furthermore, pushing an automated software update to put ads inside the user interface of the TV where they previously didn’t exist should be illegal as well.

scrollaway 6y ago

> Why does anyone have a problem if Samsung puts ads on this content? You're the only person mentioning this avenue in the entire comment section. Safe to say, it doesn't sound like people have a problem with ads there.

effingwewt 6y ago

I'll take a shot. People are just done with ads. My samsung S20 ultra costs me ~1300, and has ads on the phone, as in the native Samsung apps for everything. And since none can be installed I now have worthless bloatware I had to replace with ad free working alternatives. Samsung tvs are hilariously bad with ads all over. On neither item is it possible to flash this crap away or disable it. People love to tout things being free for our data, but this is paying over $1k to still have some of the most intrusive ads ever. You must own one of their products to watch their ads with shows thrown in (Samsung channel) and this means you have paid for access to that channel and are still being served disgustingly intrusive ads(as others pointed out they screen grab and send home images of everything you watch on any input)

p49k 6y ago

No one has a problem with Samsung putting ads on a channel with free content that you can choose not to watch. But to take screenshots of what you’re watching on your tv every 60 seconds, upload it to their servers, and use it to build a profile of you so that the ads on that channel can be more targeted should land some Samsung executives in prison. Furthermore, pushing an automated software update to put ads inside the user interface of the TV where they previously didn’t exist should be illegal as well.