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This has to be something that's only legal in the US because I've never had ads on any TV that I've owned. Never even thought about it, I just get a random big TV and it doesn't have ads.
Admittedly I haven't actually bought a TV in about 10 years so it is possible that the ones I'm getting from family members and friends are just very well researched, but I doubt it knowing them. They will have just got whatever is biggest.
Wrong, modern Chinese tvs are filled with ads. Its been on the news several times, and has some minor regulation since then. Before, you get ads upon turning on the tv, more when loaded to the launcher, not to mention ads during shows, and finally ads when you shut off the tv. Currently, theres only ads when loaded to launcher.
People have been trying to get rid of the ads through root, replacing the launcher, editing the host file to block ad ips.
Its a mess.
Or literally never, ever connect your TV directly to the Internet (seriously, don’t do it).
My Apple TV does an infinitely better job than the half-assed built-in native apps; more services are supported and for longer, features are properly integrated, and the additional smart phone functionality (AirPlay, AirPods sync etc.) is a godsend in a busy household.
Plus the added bonus of not risking my network getting compromised, and one less company collecting and selling data about me to unscrupulous marketers and shady middle-men.
How can you stream shows when you're not connected to the internet? Everythnig is streaming these days.
I have replaced the default launcher, removed bloated apps through adb. The only ads I see are upon entering app, which is something I currently cant do anything about, but a press of button would make it go away.
Chromecast.
Google and China does not get along (Google is completely blocked in China due to it refusing to back down on China's demand to regulate search results (ie: remove all websites that intentionally paints China in a negative light)),
Chromecast is rather useless in China
Connect it to cheap mini computer or a raspberry Pi. There's other streaming devices available but they usually cost the same as the other two options I mentioned and the cheaper ones are also filled with ads.
I'd rather have a full-blown computer anyways and there are ways to have it act more like a tv with a remote but still keep all the functionality if you need it.
Smasnug tvs definitely have built in ads
Found the DankPods fan
How did you know ;)
SMASNUG
Not if you don't let them connect to the Internet
In that case there are no digital ads then are there
not mine ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I have a series 5 Samsung 32" smart tv and except preloaded apps and stuff which can be removed there were absolutely no ads.
i even connected it to the internet and signed in with my Samsung account, still no ads
(maybe it's a regional thing, mine is set to Ukraine)
Series 7 occasionally shows them beside the 'app store'
um, the tweet is customer support UK.....
But Samsung TVs don't have ads in the UK. They don't. Perhaps if you buy a TV in the UK and then take it to another country it has ads and vice versa but I'm sure it's illegal here.
it is from 2021 so if UK changed the law to not allow ads on tvs in that timeframe it could explain it. otherwise idk why samsung UK would be answering questions on removing ads
It's not that ads are not allowed on TVs. Obviously ads are allowed on TV. It's just that under UK law something has to be very obviously advertisement, part of that is you're not allowed to stick it amongst other things that aren't advertisements.
So in television programming you'll have to have a black screen and then a few seconds of silence before you're allowed to show the first ad. You can't just slam cut into it from a TV show, that's not allowed. Equally if there's a bunch of UI stuff the ads are not allowed to be amongst them because some of them aren't ads and some of them are. It's been that way for literally decades.
What I suspect might have happened is that Samsung tried their luck and then got shut down by the advertising board. Quite possibly they don't have a way to update their firmware. My newest Samsung TV I have access to was purchased in 2019 so there may be a time period after 2019 but before 2024 where they were doing this, but it can't have lasted very long.
There is an incoming law about not adding unremovable bloatware as well, so if they're going to go hard on that as well I can hardly see them putting up with advertising on TV interfaces.