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Every TV is ad-free if you don't give it internet access.
by wyager 5y ago
Every TV is ad-free if you don't give it internet access.
- unnouinceput 5y agoor use Pi-hole smartly!
- jay3ss 5y agoThis is my solution, although it sometimes feels like playing a game of Whack-A-Mole
- dogma1138 5y agoA Pi-Hole can also break your TV interface, like it does with Samsung TVs after the recent updates they expect the ads to load when they don’t things get messy. It’s pretty much a TV + a set top box these days if you want to avoid ads in day to day use with most brands now. I think out of the major brands only Sony hasn’t been pushing ads so far at least as far as their premium models go.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoDon't they automatically search for any nearby wifi? I remember complaints about that.
- jobe_br 5y agoNot sure if that was a Vizio thing, but I think Samsung did/does this.
- jobe_br 5y agoThis. I factory reset my Vizio a couple months ago because it was crashing a lot and I didn’t bother giving it any Internet access this time around. There are also no other WiFi networks nearby.
- throw10920 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29219918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29219918 > Some TVs with ads actually have ads pre-loaded on them, so not connecting them isn't sufficient to defeat the ads.