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The real tragedy: > In fact, the YouTube app is zippier because fewer connections are made to ad URLs in the first place. I swear on LG TV that webOS runs at

The real tragedy: > In fact, the YouTube app is zippier because fewer connections are made to ad URLs in the first place. I swear on LG TV that webOS runs at a smooth 60 FPS when it's not connected to Wi-Fi and slows down as soon as it phones home for whatever telemetry and ads LG intend to serve me...

todd3834 3y ago
In a previous role I was tasked with increasing the lighthouse/pagespeed score across some web properties. After some iterations and very little improvements we would be asked what else we could do. Did we need to speed up the backend? Could we lower latency, etc… The solution: I set up a query param that would disable google tag manager. All of the crazy tracking and telemetry stuff we didn't control was the biggest issue.
- j16sdiz 3y ago
  Those analystic spend most of its time trying to tell bots apart from real browsers. This is basically an arm race. I am not sure who is to blame, but I guess there is no way we can get the simple web we loved back.
j16sdiz 3y ago
This shows how little they care, or poor engineering, or both. Failing all engineering effort, they could have use a beefer CPU...
- gabereiser 3y ago
  So they can run more ads, negating the performance boost. The answer isn’t simply throw more cpu at the problem.
te_chris 3y ago
I’ve never connected my c2 to the internet and it’s great.
internet101010 3y ago
Connecting smart TVs to the internet is always a net negative.
rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y ago
For LG TVs, if you set the region to "Other," it completely disables all the ads, recommended content, and telemetry [1], presumably because they can't keep track of all the changing laws for every nation on earth. In my experience, there was a noticable performance improvement as well. Bootup times alone are probably 2x-3x faster. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/1571djx/guide_how_to_turn_off_lg_tv_ads/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/1571djx/guide_how_t...
- taspeotis 3y ago
  Great link, thanks.
mafuyu 3y ago
You're not imagining it! The ads slow down webOS a lot, and blocking them with pi-hole made my TV much more usable. I highly recommend setting up pi-hole or similar, and blocking all the LG domains it tries to hit. I commented about it a while back here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34374725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34374725
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todd3834 3y ago

In a previous role I was tasked with increasing the lighthouse/pagespeed score across some web properties. After some iterations and very little improvements we would be asked what else we could do. Did we need to speed up the backend? Could we lower latency, etc… The solution: I set up a query param that would disable google tag manager. All of the crazy tracking and telemetry stuff we didn't control was the biggest issue.

j16sdiz 3y ago
Those analystic spend most of its time trying to tell bots apart from real browsers. This is basically an arm race. I am not sure who is to blame, but I guess there is no way we can get the simple web we loved back.

j16sdiz 3y ago

This shows how little they care, or poor engineering, or both. Failing all engineering effort, they could have use a beefer CPU...

gabereiser 3y ago
So they can run more ads, negating the performance boost. The answer isn’t simply throw more cpu at the problem.

te_chris 3y ago

I’ve never connected my c2 to the internet and it’s great.

internet101010 3y ago

Connecting smart TVs to the internet is always a net negative.

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y ago

For LG TVs, if you set the region to "Other," it completely disables all the ads, recommended content, and telemetry [1], presumably because they can't keep track of all the changing laws for every nation on earth. In my experience, there was a noticable performance improvement as well. Bootup times alone are probably 2x-3x faster. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/1571djx/guide_how_to_turn_off_lg_tv_ads/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/1571djx/guide_how_t...

taspeotis 3y ago
Great link, thanks.

mafuyu 3y ago

You're not imagining it! The ads slow down webOS a lot, and blocking them with pi-hole made my TV much more usable. I highly recommend setting up pi-hole or similar, and blocking all the LG domains it tries to hit. I commented about it a while back here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34374725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34374725

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