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So you'll still have all the adverts, they just don't update?
by squiffsquiff 5y ago
So you'll still have all the adverts, they just don't update?
- flatiron 5y agoI had to do that. My Samsung couldn’t leave “demo mode” or whatever without going online first and would restart itself every hour. I just let it register and blocked it from coming out my router. It stays quiet like that. I believe removing the wifi showed some nag when booting that I had to deal with. Real scummy stuff.
- bee_rider 5y agoAnnoying, but at least it isn't feeding your information in to the weird ad-driven panopticon (we'll leave that to the content providers!)
- rbanffy 5y ago> they just don't update? That's a cursed scenario...
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- mindslight 5y agoBuy it from a place with free returns. Then if it insists on showing cached ads after the network is pulled (or any other undesirable behavior), just return it. This won't help you find a better model, but it will save you from needing to research these obscure details in too much depth. . o O ( I wonder if some hostile antifeatures go away if you buy a TV in the US but then activate it from an EU IP address ).
- danudey 5y agoRun it through pihole to block the ad networks? Or just whitelist hostnames/addresses one by one until the setup works. Not exactly a user-friendly option, but an option nonetheless.
- gmadsen 5y agodns block it at the router