In my humble opinion until the producers of such appliances learn honesty through pain, it's much better to have a pirate streambox (with something like torrentflix or Popcorn Time or whatever, I just download torrents and watch on my laptop, so don't use these things).
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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Who didn’t see this coming?
When you're served ads, you're not the customer, but the product. The customers would be the advertisers. There's nothing inherently wrong with this, mind you, until it stops you from consuming the context you intended on consuming. Then it becomes a problem.
Oh no! Whoever could have foreseen this awful turn of events! Amazon would never (checks notes) stuff ads down our throats.
Put your network behind NextDNS or a self-hosted solution like Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home.
Vote with your wallet. Don't make them keep profiting on this BS.
Sure, that's the best thing to do. But if you already have one of these pieces of trash, these are some ways to improve the experience of using them.
Have you seen the TV that has a second screen that just plays ads
And apparently has cameras and sensors that detect if you cover up the 2nd screen. Truly dystopian, but also they weren't exactly hiding these features if people bought the TVs...
This is literally the oldest trick in the book, haha.
I'll keep buying dumb TVs for as long as they're around to thrift for. There's going to be plenty of flat screen dumb TVs for a lifetime.