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Key takeaway from this stuff: don't connect your TV to the internet. Just get a stupid Roku stick, Amazon Stick, Apple TV, whatever. It's obviously not right
by Dig1t 5y ago
Key takeaway from this stuff: don't connect your TV to the internet.
Just get a stupid Roku stick, Amazon Stick, Apple TV, whatever.
It's obviously not right that they're doing this, but the solution is very simple and probably a better experience anyway.
- wmf 5y agoJust understand that those sticks have very similar dark patterns and privacy problems.
- belval 5y agoOh please. My 300$ 55" TCL TV with Roku does show ads for TV shows in the start menu, but it very far from what is described in this article. Same goes for my Fire Stick which is shows ads for their new shows in the main menu. I have never interacted with any device that did something as egregious as adding a banner on live TV.
- MajorBee 5y agoI have the very same thing you have, and I have started seeing banner ads from Roku on my Apple TV! It appears in the form of a banner overlaying on top of my Apple TV content saying something on the lines of “more ways to watch this content”. I haven’t interacted with the banner yet and don’t know if it’s actually scanning the content to generate recommendations, but regardless I thought it was incredibly invasive of Roku to insert ads into a service it had absolutely nothing to do with. This thread reminded me of the issue and I’m currently looking into how this can be disabled. Apparently there is a Roku setting that can disable these ad inserts — if that doesn’t work, off with Roku’s internet privilege. Apple TV’s UX is leagues better anyway.
- wmf 5y agohttps://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features-a4840102036/ https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
- 88913527 5y agoThe stick does have a far more limited scope: It's limited by whatever's possible by HDMI.
- tomnipotent 5y agoThose sticks have probably as much processing power as whatever is inside modern smart TV's. It's still more than enough to modify HDMI output and add things that were not in the original source (like banner ads).
- Bud 5y agoApple TV doesn't. Never has. Likely never will. Apple has no incentive to indulge in that kind of behavior.
- sorum 5y agoI don’t love the Apple TV (especially the remote), but every TV in the house has one connected. It makes watching TV tolerable. Not great, but at least tolerable
- makeitdouble 5y agoIt’s over live tv.