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| ▲ | acheron a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| TVs were unsubsidized by ad tech up until 10 years ago, and I’m pretty sure most people bought TVs back then. |
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| ▲ | HDBaseT a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm not sure the adtech is even enough to subsidize the price in a meaningful way. Google’s global ad revenue equates to roughly $61 per user per year, most TV manufacturers would be unable to extract that much out per user, even with crazy levels of tracking, ads, etc. I haven't used a modern TV in a very long time, but I can't imagine LG is extracting over $20 in ad revenue/data revenue per year. It might move the needle on <$500 displays, but when LG displays costing over $5,000 still have this spyware its hard to defend. |
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| ▲ | dewey a day ago | parent | next [-] | | What makes you think LG would not be hitting the Google numbers (Instagram ad-free is ~$6 / month for example, roughly the same ballpark)? A device that's connected to a high speed internet connection, often allowed to do background tasks and being able to track all data being consumed through it (Streaming services, gaming etc.) is extremely valuable. | | |
| ▲ | microcode a day ago | parent [-] | | Indeed, many of these TVs serve ads by default on their screensavers and home screens. |
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| ▲ | bigfishrunning a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's been a very long time since they were given an option. |
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| ▲ | pixelmelt a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Aren't consumer class dumb TVs gone? |
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| ▲ | dewey a day ago | parent [-] | | Yes, that's kind of the point. If you have the choice between $500 black rectangle and $1000 black rectangle where the only difference is some boring privacy policy details most people will go with option 1. | | |
| ▲ | wewtyflakes a day ago | parent [-] | | The companies that make these TVs love that we are this point since they can now take away the subsidy, and you also coincidentally now have no option to buy a non-smart TV, so they are now collecting $ from both the purchase and from the ads. Tada! Grossness all around. |
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