Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching

• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Trollception@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “likely” lol as bad as the adpocalypse has been, at least things aren’t pre-loaded with big-standard ads for offline delivery

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      • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yet

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Trollception@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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      • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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.

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• zod000@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You mean it doesn’t have any of this yet :)

  I say this as someone with two LG TVs. Sure you can just not connect them to the internet, but a lot of people reply on the “Smart” part of the TV to view all their content.

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• FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I have a TLC that does none of this, too.

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