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Lone voice here I guess - I have a mid/high range Samsung TV and love it. Picture quality is brilliant and it looks good on the wall. I don’t think I’ve ever

Lone voice here I guess - I have a mid/high range Samsung TV and love it. Picture quality is brilliant and it looks good on the wall. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an advert on it from Samsung - where are they appearing exactly? I just switch between terrestrial TV and various apps like Netflix and Amazon on the bottom navigation bar and don’t think I’ve ever seen one. Might be wrong though!

GrinningFool 6y ago
They show for me in the navigation bar. Usually they look like just an icon in the bar for service you might have installed - except you don't.
Phillips126 6y ago
Like you I also had a mid/high range Samsung TV. The ads were not as obtrusive being only on the bottom left of the menu bar, but its the ACR that I needed to get away from. > Samsung Smart TVs have built-in Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology that can understand viewing behavior and usage including programs, movies, ads, gaming content and OTT apps in real-time.[0] Literally every second or two, Samsung was performing some screen reading data collection and sending it off to their servers. My Pi Hole was capturing 12,000 blocked requests from this per day (6-7 hours of shared family viewing). This resulted in a poor user experience where I would feel the actually latency when trying to navigate around or open the menu. After factory resetting my TV it was so snappy again. Plugged in an AppleTV and haven't looked back. This form of advertising is incredibly invasive and disgusting to me, with constant spying/screenshotting of the content I am viewing. [0] https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/tv-ad-retargeting/ https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/tv-...
yarg 6y ago
Samsung's hardware capabilities are impressive - quantum dot active matrix displays (for example) present a technology that is fundamentally superior to anything they compete with. However, they seem to be rampantly anti-consumer - not only selling user data, but overcharging on everything they sell. They also hobble their hardware with software designed by a bunch of shit-flinging monkeys. They're also perfectly happy to engage in whatever legally dubious practices that they can get away with.

GrinningFool 6y ago

They show for me in the navigation bar. Usually they look like just an icon in the bar for service you might have installed - except you don't.

Phillips126 6y ago

Like you I also had a mid/high range Samsung TV. The ads were not as obtrusive being only on the bottom left of the menu bar, but its the ACR that I needed to get away from. > Samsung Smart TVs have built-in Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology that can understand viewing behavior and usage including programs, movies, ads, gaming content and OTT apps in real-time.[0] Literally every second or two, Samsung was performing some screen reading data collection and sending it off to their servers. My Pi Hole was capturing 12,000 blocked requests from this per day (6-7 hours of shared family viewing). This resulted in a poor user experience where I would feel the actually latency when trying to navigate around or open the menu. After factory resetting my TV it was so snappy again. Plugged in an AppleTV and haven't looked back. This form of advertising is incredibly invasive and disgusting to me, with constant spying/screenshotting of the content I am viewing. [0] https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/tv-ad-retargeting/ https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/tv-...

yarg 6y ago

Samsung's hardware capabilities are impressive - quantum dot active matrix displays (for example) present a technology that is fundamentally superior to anything they compete with. However, they seem to be rampantly anti-consumer - not only selling user data, but overcharging on everything they sell. They also hobble their hardware with software designed by a bunch of shit-flinging monkeys. They're also perfectly happy to engage in whatever legally dubious practices that they can get away with.