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Is this US-only thing? I have an LG and a Samsung TV, both less than 4 years old. Neither do this. I'm inside the EU, so I wonder if GDPR is protecting me from
by colinb 6y ago
Is this US-only thing? I have an LG and a Samsung TV, both less than 4 years old. Neither do this. I'm inside the EU, so I wonder if GDPR is protecting me from the misbehavior.
Failing that, I guess, there's always the PiHole DNS shenanigans. But you shouldn't have to be the IT guy/gal just to help your next-door neighbor watch their damn TV.
- Sander_Marechal 6y agoIt's not. I'm in The Netherlands and last year my fairly new Samsung TV started serving me ads. I was so pissed off, if the TV had still been under warranty I would have returned it. I have now pi-holed my entire network. My next TV will be a dumb screen.
- tungdo 6y agoI live in Germany. My Samsung (less than 1 year old) serves Ads even if I'm watching videos on my USB. Their Support denied this and claimed Netflix is showing Ads, but they update Eula software later to ask for consent. It seems that they have tried this before. https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Samsung-Smart-TVs-blenden-Werbung-ueber-abgespielte-lokale-Inhalte-2545924.html https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Samsung-Smart-TVs-bl...