My tv hasn't seen an ad since i plugged it in.
My TVs are pre-smart TV and only 1080p and I have yet to feel that I was missing anything important.
Yet another justification for piracy
My best purchase in the last couple of years was a 4k Sceptre TV from Walmart. Super cheap, good enough video quality and is dumb, just turns on to 4hdmi ports. That way I can just plug in whatever I want, or get a $30 roku and replace it whenever they update it to the point where it lags on basic menu navigation like my previous tvs.
Fuck all that bloatware, ad infested crap.
And it's driving up the price of commercial flatscreens.
Nah, my TV is not Internet connected. My router is as blocking. My dns is as blocking. My web browser and phone browser are web blocking. I use the YouTube website on my phone. If someone bypasses all that and pushes adds I just back out of that site.
An article on Ars Technica, complaining about advertising.
What hypocrite posted this?
Have an Insignia tv and having to click out of a full screen ad after boot up will never not annoy me
When our last TV which was 'smart' died, we just bought a big lcd monitor at the pawn shop. We already were only using Kodi on an Android box, so a monitor with external speaker is fine. (Seemed spyware free last time I checked, but beware no-name android media boxes on=from eBay etc., use a tiny or old spare PC instead if you wish).
One must 'sail the high seas' tovget content, of course...
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
