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From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 26 12:31:50 2024

From the «Kindle was first» department:
Title: LG TVs Start Showing Ads On Screensavers
Author: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:41:00 +0000
Link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/09/25/1840253/lg-tvs-start-showing-ads-on-screensavers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

LG has started displaying ads on TV screensavers, intensifying the proliferation of ads in smart TV software. The South Korean company quietly announced the move to advertisers on September 5, forgoing a public statement to consumers.

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From usuario@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 26 13:15:06 2024

El 26 Sep 2024 12:31:50 GMT, Retrograde escribió:

From the «Kindle was first» department:
Title: LG TVs Start Showing Ads On Screensavers Author:
[email protected] Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:41:00 +0000 Link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/09/25/1840253/lg-tvs-start-

showing-ads-on-screensavers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

LG has started displaying ads on TV screensavers, intensifying the proliferation of ads in smart TV software. The South Korean company
quietly announced the move to advertisers on September 5, forgoing a
public statement to consumers.

[image 2][2][image 4][4]

Read more of this story[5] at Slashdot.

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[1]:
http://twitter.com/home?

status=LG+TVs+Start+Showing+Ads+On+Screensavers%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F24%2F09%2F25%2F1840253%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter

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http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?

u=https%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F24%2F09%2F25%2F1840253%2Flg-
tvs-start-showing-ads-on- screensavers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook

(link)
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https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/09/25/1840253/lg-tvs-start-

showing-ads-on-screensavers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed

(link)

Now using an adblocker in your own LAN a la PiHole might me mandatory.

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From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 26 13:39:40 2024

On 26 Sep 2024 12:31:50 GMT, Retrograde <[email protected]d>
wrote:

LG has started displaying ads on TV screensavers, intensifying the >proliferation of ads in smart TV software. The South Korean company quietly >announced the move to advertisers on September 5, forgoing a public statement >to consumers.

If WiFi is not hooked up...no ads?

Seldom watched TV in past 24 years...Internet mostly

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From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Sep 27 14:23:28 2024

On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, JAB wrote:

On 26 Sep 2024 12:31:50 GMT, Retrograde <[email protected]d>
wrote:

LG has started displaying ads on TV screensavers, intensifying the
proliferation of ads in smart TV software. The South Korean company quietly >> announced the move to advertisers on September 5, forgoing a public statement
to consumers.

If WiFi is not hooked up...no ads?

Seldom watched TV in past 24 years...Internet mostly

My LG OLED TV is about 2 years old, and I see no ads. It is internet
connected due to the wife, but I only use it with a radxa zero and kodi,
so I never see any commercials. This is a good thing to check if I need to
buy a new TV some time.

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From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Sep 27 13:50:54 2024

On 2024-09-26, JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

On 26 Sep 2024 12:31:50 GMT, Retrograde <[email protected]d>
wrote:

LG has started displaying ads on TV screensavers, intensifying the >>proliferation of ads in smart TV software. The South Korean company quietly >>announced the move to advertisers on September 5, forgoing a public statement >>to consumers.

If WiFi is not hooked up...no ads?

Seldom watched TV in past 24 years...Internet mostly

I think what they do is make you connect it to the internet initially,
or it won't ever work. The various hacker news threads related to this
have a lot of discussion that reveal:

* TV makes now make more money selling your viewing habits than on
hardware

* The new tech that screenshots whatever you're watching so it can be
fingerprinted and identified and then that info sold is a big business

* It's getting near impossible to buy a non-smart TV, and that is on
purpose, they don't want you buying a TV that's not internet connected
because of the above.

Screw the whole industry. There isn't anything decent worth watching.
And the ad industry, sheesh.

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From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Sep 27 21:20:11 2024

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:50:54 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <[email protected]d> wrote:

I think what they do

On a different note, Google's App Store

On one Smartphone, I downloaded a free app.

Months later, the same app on another Smartphone.

Google knew I had done this twice, and even showed me the model number
of the Smartphone when I downloaded it the first time.

And we thought Cookies were bad...many companies sucking up our
habits/etc.

I still wonder why OEM vehicle companies were selling (indirectly)
driver information, which ended up in insurance companies data bases.

What a rip, buy a new vehicle, and the OEM is selling your driving
habits, etc.

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From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Oct 9 21:35:28 2024

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:50:54 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <[email protected]d> wrote:

I think what they do

Smart TVs are spying on everyone

Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it.
Privacy advocacy group wants that to change

Smart TVs are watching their viewers and harvesting their data to
benefit brokers using the same ad technology that denies privacy on
the internet.

In a report titled "How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the
Streaming Era," the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) outlines the
expansive "commercial surveillance system" that has infested Smart TVs
- aka connected TVs or CTVs - and video streaming services.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/09/smart_tv_spy_on_viewers/

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From Danart@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 10 03:55:34 2024

Retrograde wrote:
From the «Kindle was first» department:
Title: LG TVs Start Showing Ads On Screensavers
Author: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:41:00 +0000
Link:

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/09/25/1840253/lg-tvs-start-showing-ads-on-screensavers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

LG has started displaying ads on TV screensavers, intensifying the proliferation of ads in smart TV software. The South Korean company

quietly

announced the move to advertisers on September 5, forgoing a public

statement

to consumers.

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ROTFL

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