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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wasn't there news lately that LG wants to display ads in pause?

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sure they want to but they let you disable all of this in the settings. Also a TV with no internet likely will be an unable to serve adds.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"likely" lol as bad as the adpocalypse has been, at least things aren't pre-loaded with bog-standard ads for offline delivery

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's what i say; use the TV as dumb display or deal with enshitification now or later.

Btw, i have an LG too but i always understood them letting you disable stuff them just anticipating GDPR lawsuits. But seems it's the same in US? Maybe they really want you not having a bad experience.

I mostly like my LG tv, and it's nice that I can use it without agreeing to their T&C or logging in. It does really piss me off that if I wanted to change picture settings (brightness, color, etc) I'd have to turn their adware settings back on.

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure it's a business decision. The risk of showing ADs and getting a bad reputation