Most people's TV show ads nowadays, be it Samsung or a competitor. The thing is, people don't care about ads. They just deal with it. Hence how Samsung gets away with this sh*t.

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gryfft 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The fact that this is true feels like we as a society just shrugged and gave up about something like, say, ubiquitous lice or ticks. "Yeah, everyone just has those, all the time."

	▲	dragonwriter 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hey, so remember COVID?

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fullshark 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They care but not enough for "the free market" to generate an ad free competitor that can be trusted to never show ads for the lifetime of the product. Especially because they'd have to charge more for that product.

Government regulation is the only way to stop this.

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Jensson 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> an ad free competitor that can be trusted to never show ads for the lifetime of the product

There is no such thing, every big corporation adds greedier and greedier practices over time.

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AnimalMuppet 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've got a fridge that I trust to not show ads for the lifetime of the product, because it doesn't have a screen like that. It's pretty new, too, and fairly nice.

So such competitors exist. I can't imagine that they will cease to exist.

	▲	slowmovintarget 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've been thinking the same. Our GE fridge is just... a refrigerator/freezer. No screen, no internet connection. We went looking for that. Our Miele dishwasher... no internet connection. Our GE range / stove wants an internet connection and a phone app to use it's broiler features (I think). They're actually gated behind internet connectivity. We do without it. Our home thermostat was installed with wi-fi everything... Which we promptly disconnected when the installers left. The same for the irrigation system. We want to use the device to control it, not have to connect to some server on the internet to manage our heat, A/C, or watering schedule. Don't get me started on looking for "dumb phones" for our child.

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zoky 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, to be fair, most people’s TVs have shown ads since forever. Granted, those ads were distributed by the broadcaster rather than the TV manufacturers, but the association between TV and ads goes back far enough that it’s just sort of part of the cultural consciousness. I’m not sure that means that people “don’t care about ads”, especially when they are appearing in their homes through channels other than television. It may be that people who normally wouldn’t accept having ads on their devices have a blind spot for TV ads, just because that’s how TV has always been.