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timschmidt | on: Root shell on Samsung TV
Hilariously enough, the sort of TVs used to display advertising in public places[1] don't have any of this annoying spy/adware installed.

1: https://tru-vumonitors.com/21in-to-65in-monitors/

dtgriscom | parent
True, but they're MUCH more expensive. For example, the lowest-end 43" this company sells for a little over $2000; you can find ones on Amazon for a tenth the price. Yes, a lot of that is the industrial quality, but some of it is the spy/adware subsidization.
timschmidt | root | parent
Yup. I just find it funny that the one place it's unacceptable to show ads is over other people's ads.
cowlevel | root | parent
I thought I remembered LG or some other brand was identifying ads in your content to replace them with other ads.